Creating a Professional ePortfolio

Creating your own ePortfolio is a great way to:

1. Build skills and familiarity with process and platform to support students,
2. Develop new strategies and prompts for reflection through practice,
3. Track and reflect on your own achievements (for instance for a promotion or tenure file), and
4. Craft or share your digital identity.

Here are some resources for brainstorming, artifact selection, reflection, and narrative.

• Hannah Alpert-Abrams, Finding Your Purpose: A Higher Calling workbook for justice-oriented scholars in an unjust world
• Amy Cicchino, Selecting and Contextualizing Artifacts for Faculty and Staff ePortfolios, University Writing (Auburn University, 2021)
• Amy Cicchino, Creating a Professional Personal Brand Worksheet, University Writing (Auburn University, 2021)

Using Your ePortfolio for Tenure and Promotion

You can find these articles in the SIUE ePortfolio Zotero group.

• Erica Swenson Danowitz, “On the Right Track: Using ePortfolios as Tenure Files,” International Journal of ePortfolio 2, no. 1 (2012): 113-124.
• Chloe Mills, “The librarianship portfolio: A case study of innovation in faculty evaluation at Robert Morris University,” New Library World 116, no. 9/10 (2015): 527-539.
• Christine Winberg and Nicola Pallitt, “‘I am trying to practice good teaching’: Reconceptualizing eportfolios for professional development in vocational higher education,” British Journal of Educational Technology 47, no. 3 (2016): 543-553.