Welcome to a new digital experience at BCS

Successful technologists have long recognised CPD as the not-so-secret power behind their performance. With access to the right CPD activities you’ll not only fill the gaps in your specialist skills, you can expand your knowledge in related disciplines while keeping up with emerging trends and the opportunities they offer.

Our member surveys consistently highlight CPD among the top reasons for joining BCS. Which is great because delivering enjoyable development opportunities for the people who drive our digital world, that’s the stuff that gets us out of bed in the mornings.

Discover a new way to learn

Now live in MyBCS and ready for you to explore, BCS Discover is the brand new platform for CPD content at BCS — an expanding library of articles, videos, events, online courses and more, collated to help you develop your knowledge and expertise.

Search by topic across 30 tagged content areas to build your skills and confidence at every career stage:

• Explore integral disciplines such as business analysis and software development
• Develop your awareness in progressive areas like future computing and AI, and in niche subjects like the digital arts and computing history
• Search broader themes such as leadership and management for strengthening your core skills
• Expand your understanding of the industry’s cybersecurity and green IT challenges
• Be guided by the Popular topics selection showing, at a glance, what other members are enjoying

Learning your way

As your career evolves, so does your approach to professional development. BCS Discover offers a wide variety of content for you to choose from, in formats to suit your learning style, including articles, podcasts, reports, qualifications and courses you can complete in your own time, as well as our quarterly live CPD events. These bring members together for a shared learning experience focused on a specific skill or knowledge set. They also award you a digital badge so you can proudly show off your commitment to growing your knowledge and skills.

Curate your curiosity

There’s a whole lot of content in BCS Discover and you won’t always have time to indulge yourself in each search result that catches your eye. BCS Discover lets you tag and save your finds so you can return to them when your schedule allows.

Head to BCS Discover to start exploring the content on offer. You’ll find a lot is exclusive to members, providing more value to your BCS experience. (Discover also offers a non-member limited-access view for tech professionals who’ve yet to join.)

Don’t forget to record all your CPD activity on the BCS PDP app (personal development plan) where you can evaluate your learning and track your progress — there’s a PDP link attached to every Discover item to remind you.

This is just the beginning…

We’ve selected some quality pieces for this initial release of Discover, it's the first step in our content journey. Not seen the content you were expecting? Keep checking back or give us your feedback using the link below. We’ll be regularly adding to the collection and updating material, maintaining a valuable repository of knowledge and learning resources.

While search activity and interaction across the platform will help steer our content strategy and enable us to provide more of the topics and formats that people are engaging with, it’s direct feedback from our members that will be integral to the evolution of the platform. We’re on this digital journey together and the better we understand your CPD needs, the better we can serve them. We want to hear your views, not just about the content you find on the platform but any other subjects and themes you’d like to see included.

So what do you think?

Once you’ve spent a little time on the platform, it’s quick and easy to drop us your opinion and even volunteer for user testing — just hop onto this short feedback form: BCS digital experience: over to you. Answer the multiple-choice question, give us marks out of ten, tell us in your own words, or do all three… we value every piece of feedback you give us. It should only take a couple of minutes to complete. And please let us know about any other topics you’d like to see covered. As we continue to grow the platform, we’ll review every suggestion we receive for new content.

More releases on the way

The new BCS Discover platform is an important phase in the new digital journey for members, with more exciting developments to come. Watch this space for future updates.

The BCS membership team