Blog Recap: REEA National Conference REinspire 2025 – Innovate, Instruct, Inspire

The REinspire 2025 Conference—Innovate, Instruct, Inspire brought together the brightest minds in real estate education for four transformative days in Myrtle Beach. From thought-provoking keynotes to hands-on workshops, the event gave educators the tools to engage learners, elevate instruction, and stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.

The Big Theme: Reinvention Through Innovation

This year’s theme, Reinspire, was more than a slogan. It was a call to action for real estate educators to push past limits, embrace change, and reignite their passion for teaching. From Justin Osmond’s opening keynote on turning challenges into strengths, to sessions on AI, video branding, and gamification, attendees left with renewed energy and actionable strategies.

Key challenges surfaced again and again:

• Keeping students engaged in an attention-fragmented world
• Meeting state compliance requirements while fostering creativity
• Integrating emerging technology without overwhelming instructors
• Expanding reach and growing enrollments in a competitive market

Where a Learning Management System Fits In

Many of these challenges have a clear solution: adopting a modern LMS. The right cloud-based LMS or SaaS learning management system can:

• Boost engagement through interactive video, gamification, and social learning features
• Streamline compliance training with automated certification tracking and reporting
• Support hybrid, self-paced, and extended enterprise LMS models to meet diverse learner needs
• Scale programs with mobile-friendly content for both customer training and employee training
• Leverage AI for lesson planning, personalized feedback, and efficient course creation

An LMS platform like DigitalChalk helps real estate schools deliver online customer training, customer onboarding, employee onboarding, and professional development without the friction of manual processes. It also enables eCommerce for schools looking to monetize courses, add a new revenue stream, expand reach and scale revenue.

Session Highlights

The conference featured sessions that tackled some of the most pressing topics in real estate education. Interestingly each theme connected closely to challenges a modern learning management system (LMS) can solve.

• The Tech-Driven Real Estate Classroom – Showcased emerging tools like AI, gamification, and interactive video to make learning more engaging.
  How an LMS Helps: A cloud-based LMS centralizes these tools in one platform, making it easy to integrate video, interactive assessments, and AI-assisted course design into both in-person and online training.

• AI as Your Teaching Sidekick – Offered strategies for streamlining lesson prep and creating more personalized learning experiences.
  How an LMS Helps: A SaaS learning management system can automate grading, track learner progress, and personalize learning paths—freeing instructors to focus on high-value teaching.

• Theme It, Dream It, Stream It – Focused on using video branding and creative content to stand out in the market.
  How an LMS Helps: An LMS platform supports video-based learning, branded course portals, and ecommerce capabilities for selling those courses to a wider audience.

• Outline Your Passion – Addressed the challenge of meeting state compliance requirements while keeping courses engaging.
  How an LMS Helps: With built-in compliance training tools, automated reporting, and flexible course templates, an LMS makes it easier to stay compliant without sacrificing creativity.
  

• Edutainment as the Spark for Transformative Learning – Showed how fun, interactive teaching can improve learner retention.
  How an LMS Helps: Features like gamification, discussion boards, and social learning in a SaaS LMS keep learners engaged long after the session ends.

Networking & Community

Beyond the sessions, educators built connections through receptions and mentor meet-ups. These relationships reinforced a shared mission: shaping the future of real estate education while meeting the growing demand for online customer training and employee training.

The Takeaways

The National REEA Conference REinspire 2025 reminded us that teaching is both an art and a science and that with the right mix of technology, creativity, and community, real estate educators can prepare the next generation of professionals to thrive.

For schools ready to apply these insights, DigitalChalk’s online LMS platform offers a complete solution for training. Whether you’re enhancing your course offerings or scaling pre and post license training DigitalChalk makes it easy to innovate, instruct, and inspire every day of the year. To learn more about our real estate educator expertise, visit our real estate page. We also have two featured customer success stories from Oklahoma Real Estate Academy and  REEsults School of Real Estate.