Driver Education Online Courses

 

AMA Driver Education Online Course Details

AMA Driver Education, is now offering five online courses to challenge and improve your driving knowledge and skills, which include:

Demerit Reduction Defensive Driver Course

This course is 6.5-hours providing drivers with a greater awareness of the causes and consequences of unsafe driving. It features seven interactive modules that can be completed individually or together in one study session.

 

This interactive media course explores:

  • Highway safety and how the driver relates to it
  • The Traffic Safety Act
  • Driver, vehicle and environment issues
  • Various driver impairments, driving emergencies, and driver solutions
Drivers will be presented with information on risk management as well as proactive strategies when driving a vehicle. A final multiple choice knowledge test is written at the end of the course. 

A Course Completion Certificate for online courses will be mailed to each individual. Please note these certificates are not available for pick up at AMA Centres. Alberta Transportation regulations require final exams are limited to two attempts to receive a Course Completion Certificate. Participants unsuccessful after two attempts are required to obtain further formal education and training.

 This course is certified by Alberta Transportation and provides successful course participants with the opportunity to have three demerits removed from their driver abstract. For more information on Demerit Reduction please go to http://www.transportation.alberta.ca/2172.htm

Cost: $99 (plus GST)
AMA Members receive a 10% discount
Approximate completion time:  6.5 hours

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Safe Backing Course

 

Safe Backing Course alt=Backing a vehicle can be extremely challenging for some drivers. Learn a practical, common sense approach to the skills involved in backing a vehicle. This course explores a driver's normal environment for typical hazards when parking and backing. It then builds a collection of strategies for avoiding the hazards or for coping with them when they are encountered.

This four-part module will teach:

  • Backing procedures
  • Backing assistance signals
  • Driveway dangers
  • How to avoid problem situations

Topics such as vehicle inspection, using a spotter, parking, doing a safe turn around in a rural area as it relates to backing the vehicle are covered. Drivers will be presented with information on risk management as well as proactive strategies when reversing a vehicle.

    Cost: $30 (plus GST)
    AMA Members receive a 10% discount
    Approximate completion time: 1 hour

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    Driver Fatigue Management-Basic

     

    Driver Fatigue ManagementThis course addresses the basic principles of driver fatigue and its impact on motorists. Modules can be completed individually or in one study session.

    Using interactive media, this three module course teaches participants:

    • The impacts, risks, and warning signs of driver fatigue
    • How to recognize, understand and manage the effects of fatigue
    • The basic principles of fatigue as well as a general understanding of sleep

    This course is designed as a prerequisite to the Driver Fatigue Management – Advanced course.
    Cost: $30 (plus GST)
    AMA Members receive a 10% discount
    Approximate Completion Time: 1 hour

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    Driver Fatigue Management-Advanced

    Driver FatigueThis course is a more in-depth version of the Basic course, designed around bringing awareness to the pitfalls of driving when sleep-deprived.

     

    Using interactive media, this three module course teaches participants:
    • How fatigue affects driving ability
    • How to prevent the onset of fatigue
    • What precautions they can take if they must drive fatigued
    This course is designed to follow the Driver Fatigue Management- Basic course.

    Cost: $30 (plus GST)
    AMA Members receive a 10% discount
    Approximate Completion Time: 1 hour

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    Proactive Defensive Driver Improvement

    Proactive Defensive Driver ImprovementThis course, targeted at professional drivers who spend a lot of time on the roads, aims to impart a greater awareness of the causes and consequences of unsafe driving practices. The course explores a driver's day-to-day driving environment for:
    • Typical hazards
    • Driver impairments
    • Basic vehicle manoeuvres

    It then builds a collection of strategies for avoiding the hazards or for coping with them when they are encountered.

    Topics such as the SIPDE system as it relates to specific driving environments are covered. Drivers will be presented with information on risk management, vehicle and environmental hazards, as well as strategies to read the driving environment.
    Cost: $45 (plus GST)
    AMA Members receive a 10% discount
    Approximate Completion Time: 3 hours