Yesterday’s post covered what you should include in your e-learning portfolio. Continue reading below to see why every e-learning professional needs an e-learning portfolio.
It Documents Your Skills and Story
Your e-learning portfolio can serve as your professional timeline that’s hosted online. You can always add to it as you gain more experience. And you can also include your photo, bio, background, and personal story with e-learning, along with your body of work. It offers a much more engaging way for potential employers, students, and collaborators to learn about you and what you do best in your field.
It Showcases and Actively Demonstrates Your Skills
If you claim to be great at developing online learning content, what better way to prove it than by actually showcasing the learning content you’ve created online? Your e-learning portfolio is much more than a two-dimensional paper resume with a static list of skills and experiences you claim to have. It is an evolving body of work that your portfolio reviewers can interact and engage with. And you can constantly update it in real time as you gain a skill or experience.
It’s Always Relevant and Easy to Update
Because your e-learning portfolio is hosted online, it will be easy to access and update at any time. That means that it will always be relevant. You’ll never have to miss out on a job offer or collaborative project again because you didn’t have time to update your resume or find files scattered on jump drives and your desktop.
It Allows You to Easily Network and Collaborate with Others
When you have an online e-learning portfolio, you can use it for much more than getting job offers, which you may not be seeking that often anyway. You can also use it to network and collaborate with other e-learning professionals in your field. If another e-learning professional has a question about a project you mentioned while in a meeting or at any event, you can just send him or her a link to your portfolio. And if you’re co-working on an e-learning project with others internal or external to your organization, they can see where your skill set lies and how you can help by reviewing your e-learning portfolio.
It Makes You Stand Out and Stay Competitive
Above all else, an e-learning portfolio makes you stand out and look like the expert you are in your field. While others are still relying on paper resumes and shuffling around e-mails with file attachments, you’ll have an easy-to-access online interactive documentation of your body of work and expertise ready to show at a moment’s notice.
E-learning portfolios offer one of the best ways for e-learning professionals to stay organized, relevant, and competitive in their industry.
PS, you don’t have to limit online portfolios to e-learning.