You own the course. Our courses are electronic brown bag seminars. We work with your subject matter experts to create quality continuing education courses. Once you satisfy your contract requirements, the course is yours and upon request, we'll provide the source files so you can modify the course to meet your needs.

However, to host the course for AIA continuing education credit, you must be an AIA continuing education provider unless we host the course for you.

Yes, you can host the course on your website also. If you choose this option, we strongly recommend linking to our site for the exam so we can combine the course log in a single database.

If you choose to host the course on your website only, you must be a provider to offer AIA continuing education credit.

Our webstats show between 200-300 visitors a day on average. Of these visitors, about 5-10% complete a course and receive credit. Most visitors come to ronblank.com for continuing education, some visit to check the course list or review past courses and still more visit for research (marketing, competitive or otherwise).

Although your course can be a marketing tool, the objective is to teach design professionals about a product, a technology or an installation. The primary purpose is not to convince design professionals to specify your product.

We add specification sections about the products for convenience in case a design professional wants to consider specifying one of the products he/she learns about but we promote these as continuing education opportunities that often evolve to be design tools.

If you're an edu-web member and we don't have your specifications online in Adobe Acrobat, Microsoft Word, and WordPerfect or you'd like to update your current specification, send us your specifications in ALL THREE formats and we'll update the specification library.

The procedure is simple. Advise us you'd like assistance developing a course for online delivery. We work with your subject matter experts to:

Develop Your Course:

1. Establish learning objectives

2. Design graphics

3. Create an exam
We seek your creative input at each design phase

Host Your Course:

We host your course online, promote it to architects across the nation, provide online course statistic reports and process credits through the AIA.

For the development fee, we create an AIA continuing education course. We offer several levels to meet budget restrictions and your specific requirements. Our couse levels are: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.

The levels vary from least interactive, graphic and educational experience to the most interactive, graphic and educational. To see the primary differences between these download the following matrix.

For the hosting fee, we promote it to architects across the nation, provide online course statistic reports and process credits through the AIA.

We offer several course levels to meet budget restrictions and your specific requirements. Our couse levels are: Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum.

The levels vary from least interactive, graphic and educational experience (Lead) to the most interactive, graphic and educational (Platinum). To see the primary differences between these download the following matrix.

We promote the online course library face-to-face, email, and online.

Face-to-face: We visit 1400 architects every year. During our visits, we talk about the website and the course library. We also visit several trade shows every year to promote the website to design professionals. We host several seminars each year with the AIA staff to teach design professionals about continuing education options.

Email: Upon your course completion, we send an email to 2500 architects to promote the new course. We also send quarterly emails advertising the course library with emphasis on new arrivals. Additionally, we send traditional mailers, flyers and postcards advertising the course library.

Online: We advertise on multiple websites. The AIA continuing education website, 4specs.com, AIA chapter newsletters and all of our sponsors sites with links to the course library to name a few.

You want us to host your course because we're an AIA Cornerstone Partner. We're an executive level provider. We can streamline course development and approval.

You want us because we're experienced in developing AIA continuing education courses and your staff rarely has time to generate and manage the courses.

You want us because we're the design professionals who educate design professionals. We speak the language and we offer an array of complementary consulting services in the market you desire.

You want us because we're ronblank.com and education is our business.

Yes, other formats are available. Some clients request a CD version of their course to supplement their online course. Others prefer to deliver their course only on CD. We develop both online and CD courses. We don't presently deliver seminars for architects. We count on our manufacturers who need to develop the relationship with the design community to give face-to-face presentations about their specific product.

If you want to develop & host your own course, attend one of our quarterly "How To" seminars where we teach manufacturers how to develop courses, how to talk to architects and how to tailor your product literature for architect's needs.

The advantages for manufacturers are greater exposure to more design professionals for a fraction of the cost of your typical brown bag seminars. You also get name brand recognition. You have an inexpensive channel to distribute information about a new product.

For design professionals, the advantage is free, convenient, informative continuing education.

To become a provider, you need to choose what level you prefer. Providership is available as a basic provider (regional), passport provider and cornerstone partner (executive level). Contact AIA to ask for provider information or request an application.

Once you complete your application, pay your annual provider fee and get your first program approved, you're on your way to being an AIA provider. The most important part of providership is prompt processing of architect's credits.

We take our reporting seriously and we report weekly. You might discover that the AIA transcript office doesn't process with the same urgency. They process thousands of credits every week and it is difficult for them to stay on schedule, but the staff is extremely helpful when you call for status or assistance. Our advice is to make friends with your transcript office.

To get started, send us a course for review and determine which course level you prefer (Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum).

We'll assess the content of your course and determine whether we need to modify the content or publish it in context. We provide a course quote and contract.

Upon receipt of your down payment and signed contract, we'll build your course in 3 phases. The script phase, the graphic phase and the test phase.

Script phase: We identify learning objectives. This is a text only review. We solicit your feedback to determine whether we're proceeding as you expected.

Graphic phase: We design the course graphic format and solicit your feedback to determine whether you want to match your website graphics, printed graphics or some alternative.

Test phase: We generate test questions based on the learning modules and solicit your feedback to confirm we're addressing the learning objectives you want to emphasize. Upon acceptance, we begin the second part of our contract, the online hosting contract - usually 1 year minimum in duration.

To renew your hosting contract, we offer an extended billing. If you want to extend do nothing and we'll automatically renew your contract in 6 month increments. If you prefer a new contract, we will generate a new contract to cover the renewal period.