Designed by educators, not just computer geeks. We’re here to make a social
impact and positive change in the societies we work in.
GCA is an organization with a commitment to making a social impact on childhood, globally. We are a powerful learning management platform that was customized and designed by educators to support training providers involved in training, credentialing, and upskilling educators, social workers, police officers, health professionals, policymakers, and other professionals serving children.
We are also a global marketplace of synchronous and asynchronous learning programs developed by vetted training institutes, NGOs, colleges, experts, and consultants. GCA makes it easy for you to manage and scale your training programs by being a part of a global network of leading organizations dedicated to making an impact on society.
GCA believes in applying an ecosystem approach to making an impact on society. Taking an “ecosystem-oriented approach” is critical for creating sustainable change in complex systems for many reasons, but we want to highlight three in particular: the importance of empowerment, reinvention, and leverage.
GCA leverages the power of partnerships. Through global partnerships, vetted relationships, and digital transformation, we can help training providers scale into new markets and gain more learners faster, and cheaper.
GCA is a corporation based in the United States. You can contact us at 1802 Vernon St NW PMB 503, Washington, DC 20009, U.S.A. You can also call us at 1-844-Join-GCA or email info@globalchildhoodacademy.com and one of our team members will get back to you.
GCA works with training providers who are currently providing synchronous or asynchronous learning programs for the upskilling of educators and other professionals serving children. Training providers may include colleges, training institutes, NGOs, SMEs, and vetted consultants. By using the GCA platform, training providers plug into a global ecosystem of providers. They use our LMS to digitally transform their business, as well as select from a vetted global collection of off-the-shelf upskilling learning programs from all the other providers on the network.
The easiest way to see if GCA is right for you is to book a demo with our qualified team of experts and educators. You can also email us at info@globalchildhoodacademy.com for more information.
For training providers:
GCA selects the top providers and thought leaders from around the world and invites them to join the GCA platform. If you would like to be considered, please book a demo and talk to one of our specialists.
For learners:
Any learner, as an individual or group, is welcome to take a course, certificate, or diploma program on the GCA platform from one of our vetted training providers.
There are many types of learning management systems (LMSs); open source (Moodle), lower-end (e.g. Moodle, TalentLMS), and high-end LMSs (Docebo, SAP Litmos) that have multiple integrations and features for enterprise-level organizations. GCA is a high-end, powerful LMS with numerous integrations available at an affordable rate which is offered to vetted organizations. GCA provides the LMS plus all the technical, mar.
The GCA team can easily migrate your courses from most LMSs onto the GCA platform in 30 days or less so that you can manage all your learning programs on one platform. Once you use the GCA platform, you will never go back! Most training providers that have joined GCA have, in one word - transformed! They ‘upped’ the quality of their courses, gained new learners, and scaled to new markets. They have gained time and resources that they can now dedicate to their program and learners.
If you choose to place your courses and learning programs on the GCA global marketplace, we will help support your existing marketing efforts. We will help you gain new learners, bring back lapsed learners, grow into new markets, increase brand awareness and make a more significant impact globally.
When joining GCA as a training provider, you choose whether you want the LMS, global marketplace or both.
Using the LMS enables you to use a high-end learning management platform to manage your existing learning programs for your current students. Besides your own learning programs, you can also choose to offer vetted, off-the-shelf learning programs in your training catalogs which were created by other training providers that are part of the GCA global network.
If you choose to launch your learning programs on the GCA global marketplace, you are making them available to be sold to individuals and groups across our global networks. Book a demo with our team to learn more.
Our support team are not just tech geeks, they are educators like you. We know how important your learning program is and we are just as passionate as you to get them successfully launched and in the hands of learners from around the world. We tailor our support to your needs, expertise, time, and budget. Our goal is to help you provide quality upskilling opportunities for professionals serving children.
Absolutely! Send us an email describing the existing platform you are using, and we will perform a quick feature comparison to give you an honest opinion about the pros and cons of migrating from your current platform to GCA.
Yes! Besides providing you with the LMS and global marketplace, GCA also provides add-on services such as social media management, region-specific paid advertising campaigns, translation services, and more.
If you want one single platform that will help you monitor the upskilling and credentialing of all your team across multiple learning programs, then GCA is for you. You can choose from hundreds of vetted and accredited learning programs to offer to your teams, upload your own materials, monitor progress, and reward top performers with digital badges through gamification.
Here are the recommended steps you would follow to utilize GCA for your teams:
GCA has hundreds of vetted and accredited learning programs in multiple languages. Our learning programs are developed and managed by training institutes, colleges, universities, NGOs, consultants and freelance experts who have met specific learning standards.
GCA has hundreds of vetted and accredited learning programs:
Anyone who completes a course, certificate, credential, or diploma program through the GCA platform will automatically receive a digitally verified certificate.
The certificate is made available through the GCA platform and is managed and accredited by the course author and any awarding body that the creator of the course is affiliated with.
Yes! You can upload videos, presentations, webinars, resources, and any other learning programs on which you want to track team engagement. Courses that you upload will only be accessible to groups that you give permission to.
GCA will help you showcase your expertise and gain increased awareness about your offerings within your target audiences.
Being part of the GCA Marketplace allows your programs to be seen by your target audience disseminated through vetted affiliates and partners.
Coursera and Udemy are hosting platforms where your courses sit amongst a sea of unrelated courses. GCA is a specialized market for your target audience which houses learning programs by the world's leading thought leaders and experts in the field of upskilling educators and professionals serving children.
If you choose to provide your course through Udemy, you won’t be able to build relationships with your students, track engagement, and learn from other providers on the platform. With GCA, you are part of a global network of providers that learn, network, share and grow with each other.
GCA works with training providers who are currently providing synchronous or asynchronous learning programs for the upskilling of educators and other professionals serving children. Training providers may include colleges, training institutes, NGOs, SMEs, and vetted consultants. By using the GCA platform, training providers plug into a global ecosystem of providers. They use our LMS to digitally transform their business, as well as select from a vetted global collection of off-the-shelf upskilling learning programs from all the other providers on the network.
Absolutely! We love highlighting our partners by creating a custom designed landing page that describes your company or your work. You can display relevant information on your landing page, including links back to your existing websites.
GCA never retains ownership over content. Intellectual property for all training content is always reserved for the course authors or the organization responsible for managing them.
No. Training providers in other regions can offer your courses as part of their local catalogs with your permission. However, only course owners can modify and download content.
24/7. As the owner of the learning programs, you will have 24/7 access and will be able to see exactly who is accessing your programs, under the “reports” tab. Reports also show you levels of engagement and interaction of learners with your learning programs. You can email, engage with, and connect with your learners from the GCA platform.
Yes. GCA provides translation, adaptation, and piloting services if you would like to launch your learning programs in a new language or region. GCA follows a simple but comprehensive process for translation and also connects you with subject matter reviewers and language specialists. Training providers that would like GCA to provide such services must provide GCA with the training content in a specific format and follow our three-step approach, as well as agree to conducting a pilot to be used for quality review and enhancement. Translation services are available in 41 languages.
Course authors retain ownership of their training content, including the translated versions.
GCA works with governments, districts, and regional affiliates by allowing them to white-label the GCA platform and use it to offer, manage, and track upskilling for up-to 100,000 active adult learners per month.
It means that we can license the GCA platform and customize it with your own branding and choose to offer a selection of courses from our platform, and to upload your own courses to your learners in up to 41 languages.
There is an annual flat fee for white labeling and servicing the platform. In Addition, costs are calculated based on the monthly active user licenses you purchase.
Active users are learners who log in to and access a learning program in a given month. In other words, you can have a million users registered on the platform, with only an average of 50,000 users accessing learning programs per month. GCA pricing is based on the number of active users accessing learning programs on the platform.
GCA has hundreds of vetted and accredited learning programs in multiple languages. Our courses are developed and managed by training institutes, colleges, universities, NGOs, consultants and freelance experts who have met specific learning standards. All courses provided through the GCA platform must meet the GCA online learning standards, and the accreditation of all learning programs are managed by the course provider.
As a district leader, you want to provide learners in your community with a variety of learning programs by globally vetted providers in their language.
Without GCA, you would probably have to manage dozens of partnerships with training providers and conduct individual vetting and quality assurance. With GCA, we provide you with one platform to manage learners as well as providers, perform quality assurance, and issue impact reports with a click of a button.
As adults we all have a role to play in protecting and caring for children.
The Global Childhood Academy (GCA) Platform is a U.S. based organization with a global mission to build a systems-based hub for training and upskilling all adults who care for and serve children between the ages of birth to 18.
As adults we all have a role to play in protecting and caring for children.
The Global Childhood Academy (GCA) Platform is a U.S. based organization with a global mission to build a systems-based hub for training and upskilling all adults who care for and serve children between the ages of birth to 18.
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