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IIDA offers CEUs in person and remotely. You can explore live programming through the IIDA Events Calendar and distance learning opportunities via the IIDA Academy.

The current continuing education compliance period began on January 1, 2024, and will end December 31, 2025.

The current compliance period applies to you if you became either a *Professional or *Associate Member prior to Jan. 1, 2024. This allows you a two full years to meet our requirement of completing 10 hours of CEUs.

• If you became a Professional or Associate Member before Jan. 1, 2024, your compliance period began Jan. 1, 2024.
• If you became a Professional or Associate Member after Jan. 1, 2024, your first compliance period will begin Jan. 1, 2026.

*All Professional and Associate members (active and inactive) including educators, IIDA Fellows, and chapter officers, must adhere to IIDA compliance requirements.

CEU is an abbreviation for the term Continuing Education Unit. This is a measurement of contact hours and credit assigned to an approved course. CEUs are awarded based on half-hour increments. One (1) contact hour of learning activity equates to 1 CEU. Contact hours are rounded to the lowest half-hour increment. For example, if instruction time is 75 minutes, the course will receive one (1) contact hour or 1 CEU; 90 minutes will receive 1.5 contact hours, or 1.5 CEU credits.

No. IIDA’s compliance requirements are independent from individual state licensing continuing education requirements. Some, but not all, courses may qualify for both IIDA and your state continuing education requirements. Please check with your state board of licensing to verify continuing education policies and procedures.

If you have attended a course which was not IDCEC approved and wish to apply it towards your IIDA compliance, you can contact us at ceu@iida.org for more information.

CEU courses are available in many venues and formats to enable members to fulfill their continuing education requirements. Learning options include:

• Courses sponsored by IIDA Chapters and City Centers
• IIDA independent study courses (available in hard copy or electronic format)
• Courses approved through IDCEC (IDCEC member organizations include: ASID, IDC, IDEC, IIDA)
• Structured travel / study tours led by qualified instructors (self-guided tours are not acceptable)
• Educational tracks at industry-wide conferences and symposia
• College courses (not toward a degree)
• Educational courses at museums and other cultural institutions led by qualified instructors
• Self-study courses available on the Internet, trade publications and Perspective magazine.
  

• CEUs are not transferable between compliance periods. Any additional credits above and beyond the required 10 CEUs and/or accumulated before Jan. 1, 2024 cannot be credited to the current compliance period.
• The attendance date of a course is used as your completion date, with the exception of distance learning programs. Your attendance date for these programs will appear as the date your completion of the program was submitted to the IDCEC.
• Keep a copy of all CEU records, including certificates of completion. According to IIDA policy, members may be requested to submit proof of course completion to IIDA Headquarters in the event of an audit.