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The Continuing Education Unit (CEU) was created by IACET as a measurement of continuing education. One (1) IACET CEU is equal to ten (10) contact hours of participation in an organized continuing education experience under responsible sponsorship, capable direction, and qualified instruction. Under IACET's care, the IACET CEU has evolved from a quantitative measure to a hallmark of quality training and instruction.
One CEU = ten contact hours of participation in organized continuing education/training experience. CEU may be expressed in tenths of a CEU (i.e., 17 contact hours equate to 1.7 CEU; 3 contact hours equate to .3 CEU). The minimum award is .1 CEU unit or one (1) hour of training.
Element K uses the American Council on Education (ACE) (http://www.acenet.edu ) to keep track of student CEUs through ACE's Transcript Service. When a student successfully completes an Element K course, the student is presented with the opportunity to register their CEUs with ACE. ACE will provide all services related to registering and managing CEU information for the student.
All courses developed by Element K using our instructional design model will have CEUs applied to them.
Unless the partner is an Authorized Supplier of IACET CEUs, Element K cannot offer CEUs for partner content.
When the on-line course is accessed, there will be a CEU designator at the top of the Course Overview tab that will indicate the number of CEUs applied to the course. Additionally, the ‘CEU' acronym will be added to the keyword search associated with each course, to allow all courses that have CEUs applied to them to be displayed during a course search activity within Element K's online catalog.
Although Element K allows the student to track their courses (start to finish) within its own Learning Management System, Element K has teamed up with ACE to manage the student CEUs through its Transcript Service. The student, upon successful completion of a course, will be given an opportunity to send relevant data to ACE that includes the course title, number of CEUs applied to the course, and other tracking information simply by following a series of online prompts. Once the submission to ACE is completed, the student will receive an email from ACE with instructions to how to log on to the ACE website, view CEUs, and order ‘official' transcripts.
Element K has been approved as an Authorized Provider by the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET), 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 800, McLean, VA 22102. In obtaining this approval, Element K has demonstrated that it complies with the ANSI/IACET Standards which are widely recognized as standards of good practice internationally. As a result of their Authorized Provider membership status, Element K is authorized to offer IACET CEUs for its programs that qualify under the ANSI/IACET Standards.
The criteria measure all aspects of an educational provider's program development. IACET Authorized Providers have demonstrated that their programs meet ten criteria. Here is an overview of the criteria and the aspect each evaluates: | |||||||||||||||||||||
Element K is an Authorized Provider (Provider# 1306604) of Continuing Education Units for the International Association for Continuing Education and Training (IACET®). As an IACET Authorized Provider, Element K offers CEUs for its programs that qualify under IACET guidelines. 
