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INCREASING REAL ESTATE STUDENT ENGAGEMENT WITH TECHNOLOGY

By: Bruce Moyer, DREI, 2018-2019 REEA President

Imagine standing in front of a room full of American students. Now imagine trying to teach the ins and outs of practicing real estate in the United States in French. There’s a chance a student or two might have completed a few years of French class in high school. But for the most part, even if you clearly give them all of the information they need, speaking a foreign language will make it nearly impossible to achieve a positive outcome for most of your students.

Technology can be viewed as its own language. As real estate educators, we must be able to speak to the language of technology that our students will quickly become responsible for in the real estate transactions. Some states don’t have a minimum education entry requirement (such as a high school diploma), and this poses a unique opportunity for real ...

Real-World Ways to Enhance Real Estate Learning with Technology

By:  Theresa Barnabei, Course Creators

Technology has had a huge impact on the real estate industry. Therefore, we cannot deny it has impacted our classrooms as well. For those instructors who have longevity in the industry, you can easily admit that how you taught has changed in just the past two years, let alone the past five, ten, fifteen or ...

How I Went From Being A One Person School To A Market Leader. All Thanks to REEA.

The year after REEA was started, a fellow instructor in Kansas City called me and asked if I was interested in attending a REEA conference. I responded affirmatively and that was what gave me the opportunity to meet the people that taught me how to actually have a successful career in real estate education.

I met national speakers that were willing to teach me how to speak. I ...

A Day in the Life of an Ed Director

Fight traffic, find a less congested short cut and arrive at the office by 8:30am, craving coffee. Wonderful...Someone made coffee and it’s ready. Oh joy.

Stop by my assistant’s desk to see the day’s calendar. We have a great facility with three formal classrooms that run 9:00am to 10:00pm, good only 4 classes today. One in the morning, one in the evening and one all day. With about 100 students in ...

Sunday Morning Keynote Speaker Jared James talks about joining you this June in San Diego at the 2018 Annual REEA Conference. This is a session you don't want to miss!  Listen now 

Listen to REEA Member Travis Everette as he shares his tips and tools on;

• Don't Blame The Fish
• Tools in the Classroom
• Overcoming Your Own ...

REEA is excited to announce that we recently participated in Mediaplanet USA’s Real Estate & Remodeling campaign where we united with likeminded industry leaders to connect professionals and consumers within the real estate and remodeling space to inspire education, growth and business efficiency through best practices in customer satisfaction, brand building and sustainability. The campaign was distributed through USA TODAY on September 19th, 2017 and is published ...