ABOUT IDCEC

Interior Design Continuing Education Council

IDCEC promotes life long learning and professional development for the interior design profession by serving as central entity for the sharing of CE information, approval, and registration; and to provide strategic planning for CE programming and activity.

Continuing education in interior design is coordinated through IDCEC's member organizations:

  • the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID);
  • the Interior Designers of Canada (IDC);
  • the Interior Design Educators Council (IDEC);
  • the International Interior Design Association (IIDA);

These organizations work together to approve continuing education courses. As a result courses approved through one of these organizations is approved for all these organizations.

For over a decade these organizations have come together to mutually set policy for quality continuing education within interior design. To date, over 4000 IDCEC-approved continuing education courses have been taken by scores of interior design professionals in both the United States and Canada who seek to fulfill their continuing education requirements for their professional organizations and juristictional mandates.