Overview of Diploma Offerings

New for 2012 are the Diploma offerings.

Diplomas are a lighter, more flexible and lower cost way to gather and practice skill-flexes than full degrees. Meanwhile they provide many similar advantages such as the opportunity to explore and develop your competencies in the world of real projects.

Diplomas, due to their relative lightness, can realistically be stacked together to make up a very broad portfolio. So, for example, the permaculture designer with a deep interest in social development can first hone their permaculture design skills through the International  Diploma of Permaculture Design (IDPD) and then add a Diploma in Leadership and Facilitation (DL&F) to extend their repertoire. There is no limit to the expansions that can be made through this plug-in approach.
 
Another feature of Diplomas is that Gaia University is now able to offer the hundreds of wonderful, crucial and edge- pushing informal educational providers out there the opportunity to use our structures and platforms to convert their current short-course offerings into Gaia U quality assured and mediated Diplomas. By this means the much needed education revolution for adults can rapidly grow. See the Diploma in Thriving as a pioneer example of this type of collaboration.

Thirdly associates who thrive in the Gaia U mediated Diploma context can use their Diploma history to support their applications for capstone degrees with Gaia U. This means, for example, that an associate can work through a Diploma or two and then apply for a 1 year topping-off program at either Bachelors or Masters level. As the Gaia U partner Diplomas and Gaia U Degrees all use the same structures and platforms (with different intensity) this Diploma to Degree route has associates arrive at Degree time already fluent in our unique Transformative Action Learning approach.

Combined with our, also new for 2012, Pay as You Go option for buying in mentoring and other support services just when you need them, we think we are opening up the learning and unlearning world for ecosocial adults in a re-evolutionary and super-flexible way.

How to enroll:  Fill out the enrollment form and pay your fees. You will be advised of the date of the next  Learning online with Gaia U program in an enrollment letter. For questions Contact Us.