Ghent joins Design Stage to deliver an IDCEC-accredited CEU exploring how outdoor learning environments support student performance and wellbeing.
Continuing education should elevate your professional practice. Too often, the coordination process becomes the primary burden.
When trying to host a CEU the traditional way, it requires a checklist: calendar coordination, reminders, attendance tracking, follow-up emails, credit documentation, all of which are competing with active project deadlines. The results are often friction where there should be focus.
At Ghent, "communicate, collaborate, and learn" is not just a tagline. It reflects how we approach product development, partnerships, and our involvement in the industry. When we developed our CEU around outdoor learning environments, we believed the delivery should reflect that same level of intention, created for the way people actually work.
That commitment led us to join Design Stage as a founding member.
For several years, Ghent has explored how collaboration extends beyond traditional interiors, including work around "fourth space" thinking and creating outdoor environments designed for engagement and performance.
Across both education and workplace sectors, a consistent question continues to surface:
What changes when thoughtfully designed outdoor environments become integrated into the learning experience?
Our newest course, Beyond the Classroom: How Outdoor Learning Spaces Help Improve Student Performance & Wellbeing, was created around that question.
This course examines:
Strong Content alone does not guarantee meaningful engagement.
Designers and architects manage complex schedules, balancing client meetings, site visits, project deadlines, and coordination across disciplines. Even high-quality CEUs compete with this limited availability. When the delivery platform feels disjointed or transactional, the learning experience suffers.
Design Stage is a different approach to continuing education. Their platform is designed specifically for commercial A&D professionals. They film, host, and promote IDCEC-accredited courses, and the experience is designed to keep learners engaged with high quality content that supports completion.
The result is a CEU experience that respects professional time while maintaining educational rigor.
As a family-owned manufacturer built on long-term relationships and product durability, we take pride in doing things the right way. Our visual display products are designed to last for decades. We believe education should reflect the same standards.
Becoming a founding member of Design Stage represents an investment in raising the bar for continuing education delivery within the A&D community. It signals alignment with a platform built intentionally.
Continuing education should do more than satisfy a requirement. It should provide actionable insight that informs design decisions and supports stronger project outcomes.
Design Stage makes the CEU experience feel simple and modern. Through Design Stage, this course offers:
The objective is simple: deliver research-driven content in a format that professionals can realistically complete and apply.
For designers working on education projects, wellness-centered environments, or outdoor collaboration initiatives, this course provides a framework for using researched-backed decisions for planning your outdoor space.
Beyond the Classroom is now available on Design Stage.
Take the course and let us know what you think. We look forward to continuing the conversation around how intentional design shapes learning environments, both inside and out.
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