The new online version of the ASR® Designation Course presents the student with the full courseware and combines both audio and video to add depth to the material.  Joe Kennedy, the Chief Operating Officer of the Seller Agency Council – the program’s pioneer – takes the student through each module in the exact same way he does in the classroom; utilizing real world issues and examples to illustrate key points in the curriculum. 

According to Kennedy, “We’ve been overloaded with requests for the online version of the ASR® Designation Program for quite some time now, but to convert the entire program into an online format was a Herculean task.  In the end, however, I believe we have created an excellent product that blends audio, visual and streaming video into a very user-friendly format.  Our aim was to provide the student with an environment as close to the traditional classroom as possible, and I am confident we did just that.”

According to Kennedy, “Their robust distance learning platform is one of the chief reasons the ASR® course is now a part of the RealtyU® Family.  With the resources afforded to us by RealtyU®, we were able to accomplish all of our critical objectives for the online version of ASR®.  The key for the Council was to avoid the mistake that many designations make in building an online project: simply placing the student workbook online for anyone to read.”  The Seller Agency Council avoided this mistake by supplementing literary course material with more visually appealing multimedia material.

Beyond the multimedia component, the online course provides each student with a special feature – an online notebook.  This enhanced feature allows the student to take notes pertaining to any aspect of the course.  When that particular section of the course is reviewed, the online system automatically produces the student’s pertinent notes, courseware, and the workbook section.

The full course, including module quizzes and final exam, was developed with the goal of assisting the student in mastering the course goals and objectives.  The industry has needed a program focused specifically on representing the seller since the early 1990’s, and the ASR® Program is the clear culmination of that need: a highly professional online course totally devoted to helping the agent reach an exceptional level of seller representation.  The Seller Agency Council has now provided a program in a format to meet the needs of those brokers and agents who prefer learning in a much more personal, web-based environment.

When each student has satisfied the necessary requirements to successfully complete the course, the Seller Agency Council automatically and immediately confers candidacy of ASR® membership, recognizing that student as an official ASR® Designee – a process that occurs with more alacrity than the traditional classroom ceremony.  The Council has also extended the benefit of the first year membership to all online students, free of charge.  “This is a very important course of study, considering the current tenor of today’s market.  Agents and sellers across the country have already recognized the need for specialization on the selling side of the transaction.  It is the Council’s sole goal to provide its members with the very best possible support structure to help them achieve that aspiration.  Therefore, we are sponsoring the first year’s membership dues for all students who complete the course.  That’s how important this goal is to us,” said Kennedy.
 
For more details on the online version please contact ASR® Career Counselors at 949.600.7176, Monday-Friday, 7:00am to 6:00pm (PST).  Classroom offerings for the course can be found at CourseDates by entering the keyword “ASR”.