Reinforcing its commitment to provide dealers with
the highest quality of continuing education courses, Stampede Presentation Products Inc.,
North America’s largest and oldest dedicated ProAV distributor, today announced
that all of the online courses offered by Stampede University (www.stampedeuniversity.com) have
been approved for Continuing Education Units by CEDIA. Stampede is the industry’s only ProAV distributor
to have its entire library of online courses approved for CEDIA CEUs.
According to Stampede President & COO
Kevin Kelly, the approval by CEDIA follows a complete redesign of Stampede
University that became effective in January 2012. As part of this initiative, the company
introduced a completely new series of integrated online courses that allow
dealers to learn at their own pace and on their own schedule. Each course features built-in LMS (learning
management system) administrative tools that track and certify each learner’s
progress through each and every course.
“What’s more,” Kelly emphasized, “Stampede University’s training programs now include more
business-oriented courses, including courses on transitions and mergers and
acquisitions, as well as a consulting program designed to help residential
dealers develop commercial markets and vice versa. The addition of CEDIA approval now makes our
course offerings even more valuable to dealers seeking to maintain their CEDIA
certification. I am very proud to note
that Stampede is the only ProAV distributor in North America to offer its
dealers their complete catalog of courses for official CEDIA CEUs.”
The
new course offerings come in addition to Stampede University’s already
substantial collection of dealer and integrator learning aids found on the
website. These include training materials in the form of webinars, how-to
videos, white papers and other media that cover the breadth of the AV
technology experience from video walls to distance-learning technology, and
represent large numbers of major equipment manufacturers, including Hitachi,
Sharp, VUKUNET, InFocus, NEC and Samsung.
According to CEDIA, the CEU Provider
program is open to members only. Member
companies wishing to become CEU providers may submit educational courses to
CEDIA for pre-approved CEU awards.
Companies requesting to become CEDIA CEU providers must complete and
submit the CEU Provider Petition Form for approval. CEDIA evaluates each submission on its
length, course description, and learning objectives.
CEDIA is an international trade
association of companies that specialize in designing and installing electronic
systems for the home. The association was founded in September 1989 and has
more than 3,500 member companies worldwide. CEDIA members are established and
insured businesses with bona fide qualifications and experience in this
specialized field. For more information on CEDIA, visit the association’s
website at www.cedia.org.
About Stampede
Known for its value-added distribution,
Amherst, New York-based Stampede is the leading distributor of presentation
equipment including LCD/DLP projectors and flat panel displays. Stampede
provides a complete range of brand name presentation equipment to a variety of
audio/video, computer, and home theater resellers and integrators in the United
States, Canada and Latin America. These resellers rely on Stampede for
value-added services in distribution, marketing and solution- based sales.
Stampede annually produces the “Big Book of AV,” an 816-page catalog and
companion website (www.BigBookofAV.com) providing hundreds of sales, installation and spec tips for Stampede’s
dealers in addition to product details on more than 5,000 SKUs. For more
information on Stampede, log onto www.stampedeglobal.com.
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