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Who here has an e-learning portfolio?
Hey all—as I've been chatting with community members lately, something that's coming up a lot is e-learning portfolios.
I thought it might be interesting to start a thread and have folks share your portfolios in the comments.
Bonus points if you add a couple of notes to your comment about what you see as best practices for portfolio creation—if I get a bunch of comments here I can create a summary of best practices for folks who don't have portfolios yet to read!
Really looking forward to seeing some of these 🙌
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Work in progress.
I don't like to pay for services if I don't have to, so this is a Wordpress site on a virtual private sever. The server is subscribed through IONOS, but only costs about $20/month including the domain name.
I like maintaining my own server space because I can use it for no additional cost limited website hosting, testing, and installing any other open source or free services I might like to host. In addition to WordPress, I use it for Kimai time tracking, Moodle LMS, Veracity Lite LRS, MySQL, Omeka Classic, and the Adapt Authoring Tool.
I think the cost is worth it and I don't worry about the sites or services suddenly vanishing.
I made a start, but didn't want to buy web space. I used Google Sites for a free, but limited layout, with picture hyperlinks to some projects in Review.
Thank you for sharing this DianeBullock-32 ! Doug1234 this might be exactly the kind of thing you're looking for, too.
While that's a good idea for small, independent creators using their own licenses and hardware, in my situation, it doesn't get around company firewalls. Most larger companies I've worked for (and mostly medium-sized ones) have blocked user access to features like GoogleDrive for cybersecurity reasons, as well as for the very reason i'm trying to do it (ie loss of IP), as well as preventing loss of much more sensitive data.
I'd love to have one, but unless you work independently and have legal contracts in place, and only produce examples using your own private license, all content you produce remains the IP of the company you are working for, and as such, remains their property. Unless you get specific permission, you could be in a LOT of legal trouble because technically you're stealing their IP.
The other issue is how to get it from the company server to your own computer. I've developed some great content over the years, but because the SL360 file is so large, I can't email it to myself. Given that I've produced content for very large companies (ie international), their cybersecurity is very strict, which means I would not be able to email myself large files nor would I be able to use USB thumb drives.
However, I've managed to send myself the odd smaller ones in a sly manner.
Does anyone know of any free sites we could upload examples of our work so that we could send potential employers to ?
Doug1234 I hear you here on the IP point. I am not a lawyer so take this with a grain of salt, but in the past I've seen people get around this by creating anonymized versions of their work vs. the actual work product they produced for a client or employer.
In terms of free places to share examples, I've seen people do really lightweight portfolios using tools like Notion and just linking or sharing screenshots or recordings of work in places like that. I've even seen people use a Google folder! Doesn't have to be fancy to work 😁I understand. Most of my portfolio is content I developed for my own projects. I've submitted two of the lessons to the Open Educational Resources archive under a CC license.
I have a section of my website for my instructional design and e-learning projects. It doesn't include everything, but it's more of a highlight gallery. For some of my projects, I include a write-up of my instructional design process. I like backward design, so I start with the learning objectives and then build activities to support those. I really enjoy working with Rise 360 and Storyline 360. Here is a link: Heather Saigo's instructional design portfolio. It's pretty simple, but I love learning and iterating, and sharing is part of improving my skills. :-) I appreciate this community!
HeatherSaigo I love how clean this is, and how you've given a combination of insight into how you approach e-learning as much as actual examples of what you built. Thank you for sharing this!
I had a really nice one within my community profile section before Articulate updated it's website last year. Sad that area of the website is gone. It just disappeared.
JodiSansone yes, I think we chatted about this back when we had our coffee call? You're not the only one who brought up loving the portfolio page features on our old community site, sadly our new site doesn't have a built-in infrastructure for that. But, it's something that's very much on my mind to see if theres a way to restore something similar!
