Portfolios are a tool that allow learning to become digitally interactive, adaptable, unique, and a way of demonstrating student learning. Through many forms of artifacts, media, student collective works, portfolios allow for a creative demonstration of learning through curating reflections, expanding on learning, and revealing intersections of students backgrounds, experiences inside and outside of the classroom, and personal identities. By adding portfolios to a curriculum, there's a digital location that can be shared with students, faculty, external partners and collobaration spaces that transcend a learning management system in an aesthetiaclly pleasing way. As education races to keep up with the ever expanding technologies, learning portfolios are a way to bridge that gap while focusing on the curation of deep, critical reflection. 

Portfolios demonstrate experiences, evidence of learning, and embody a representation of the student in a way that allows for critical reflection and engaging with experiences in and out of the classroom. It is an amalgamation of student learning, in their own words, conveyed to the audience in a unique, and experiential way.

Rapid Fire FAQ: 

Why should I adapt and/implement learning portfolios?

Tangible evidence of learning allowing students to creatively express and demonstrate learning, and use a tool that moves with the changes of times without losing the merit of education.

Is it extra work and is it hard to learn?

While the systems available do have a learning curve, the Learning Portfolio Program Manager is here to help you design, workshop, structure and flush out your learning portfolio needs. 

How hard is it to teach students how to use it?

Learning is learning, it’s not hard though it takes a bit of practice and patience at first with all new things and most often, students pick up portfolios quickly and easily.