We are pleased to announce that, from the new year, Diving Supervisor Continuing Professional Development (CPD) will be moving to IMCA Skills, the new home of professional learning and development for the offshore marine industry. The move to our dedicated, custom platform will give supervisors an improved, specialised, digital space to keep their knowledge current and meet their CPD requirements.
For Members, the move will make it easier to support supervisors’ ongoing development, with learning progress that can be shared and verified. Companies will have greater confidence that their diving teams are keeping pace with the latest guidance and good practice, and supervisors will have a clear record of the learning they have completed, by benefiting from learning that fits to their offshore lives, as content can be accessed across devices and downloaded so it can be completed even when the user is offline.
Bringing Diving Supervisor CPD onto IMCA Skills will also provide a more consistent learning experience alongside IMCA’s growing professional development offer. The upgrade will allow IMCA to present content in an enhanced format, and support newly interactive components which assist learning, making progress easier to evidence through sharing and verification features, while completion history will be available within the learner's profile. This gives users a clearer ongoing record of their professional development. Supervisors and Members already using the platform for other learning will find a user friendly environment, with everything they need in one easy place.
The move marks the next step in the expansion of IMCA Skills, after IMCA’s DP CPD moved to the platform earlier in the year. Bringing Diving Supervisor CPD onto IMCA Skills builds on that progress and strengthens the platform as the central home for professional development within one learning platform for a more joined-up experience.
IMCA Skills uses one IMCA Account, which also provides access to the IMCA website and services portal using Members’ email domain for quick access. For Member Companies, IMCA Skills will provide a clearer and more consistent way for their staff to access IMCA professional development, with improved visibility and verification of learning progress and an expanding range of industry-focused content.
We know that change can raise questions, and we want the transition to be as smooth as possible so we will be providing Members and Diving CPD users with practical guidance and support ahead of the move in January which will explain what to expect and what, if anything, users need to do to prepare.
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