The i-develop service is provided by the CLD Standards Council as part of the Professional Development Strategy: Growing the Learning Culture which promotes a "learning culture" and provides advice for practitioners, employers and other partners in relation to learning, development and improvement.

The i-develop web service is designed to support creative and innovative learning and development for CLD practitioners.  i-develop integrates the theories and practices that help shape effective professional learning and development for the CLD sector, such as peer support, communities of practice, learning journeys and reflection-in-action in order to shape a learning community of practitioners across CLD.

What is provided

• Nine Learning strands – providing context, practice and resources for practitioners including motivating and leading others, quality improvement, communities of practice.
• Thematic uploads of resource developed by the field for use by practitioners across all sectors and all stages of development.
• Group spaces developed by the National CPD Networks or other organisations where they share professional learning material.  Your own organisation may have its own discreet space here with meterial targeted to local developmental needs.
• CPD Forum where practitioners can discuss and share knowledge and experience

Getting started

I-develop is fundamentally a website with information and videos and documents to download.  It does have a few extra features that you need to login to use but a great deal of it is available without login.

You can download the full User Guide to i-develop (PDF). (Please note the User Guide is due to be updated following system updates).