Digital Teaching Portfolios

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Digital Teaching Portfolios

• Natalie B. Milman, Ph.D.
• August 22, 2007

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Participants will

1. Gain an understanding of digital teaching
   portfolios
2. Explore some examples of digital teaching
   portfolios, and
3. Determine the advantages, disadvantages, and
   purposes for creating digital teaching portfolios
   as a faculty member.

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What are Portfolios?

• Portfolios are goal-driven, organized,
  collections of materials that demonstrate a
  person's expansion of knowledge and skills over
  time.
• The contents, organization, and presentation of
  materials in portfolios vary depending on their
  audience and purpose.

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What are Teaching Portfolios?

• Special type of presentation portfolio
• Contain artifacts from teaching
• Demonstrate deliberate selection, reflection, and
  communication revolving around the artifacts
• Illustrate a professionals recognition of
  personal competence

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What are Digital Teaching Portfolios?

• Contain the same content traditional portfolios
  include but present these professional materials
  in digital format
• Also referred to as multimedia portfolios,
  electronic portfolios, e-folios, webfolios and
  electronically-augmented portfolios

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• Lets examine some!
• home.gwu.edu/nmilman/citl

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Questions to consider

1. Which elements are common among all of the
   portfolios you have examined?
2. Why would you want to create a digital teaching
   portfolio as opposed to a traditional
   (print-based) portfolio (dossier)?
3. What are the advantages and disadvantages of
   using the World Wide Web for publishing a
   portfolio?
4. Which portfolios did you like most?
5. Which portfolios did you like least?

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Contact Information

• Natalie B. Milman
• nmilman_at_gwu.edu
• 202.994.1884
• URL home.gwu.edu/nmilman/citl