Curating Your Instructional Design Portfolio

Course details

If you’re an instructional designer, elearning pro, or former teacher transitioning into elearning, having a way to showcase what you've done and can do is essential. Your portfolio showcases your skills, proves your expertise, and highlights your value to potential clients or employers.

In this course, elearning expert David Anderson shows you how to curate and prepare the key elements for a professional portfolio. Find out how to select your best work, organize projects, and present them in a way that reflects your skills and experience. Plus, learn how to craft engaging project descriptions, create impactful thumbnails, and ensure your portfolio remains adaptable as your career evolves.

Learning objectives
Evaluate your skills and experiences in making decisions about portfolio work to showcase.
Document your design processes in order to better showcase and explain completed work.
Justify platform choices for usage needs in publishing your portfolio.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Understanding how to curate a portfolio
02 - Overview of portfolio apps and platforms

1. Planning Your Portfolio

03 - Setting portfolio goals and identifying your audience
04 - Assessing your skills and experiences
05 - Creating a content inventory and plan
06 - Identifying your best work samples

2. Curating and Showcasing Your Work

07 - Writing project descriptions and case studies
08 - Documenting your instructional design process
09 - Adding client testimonials and results
10 - Tailoring your portfolio for specific opportunities
11 - Ensuring accessibility in your portfolio design

3. Repurposing Confidential Work for Your Portfolio

12 - Navigating copyright, NDAs, and confidentiality
13 - Anonymizing client work
14 - Recreating key aspects of your work

4. Showcasing Elearning Specific Skills

15 - Demonstrating proficiency in authoring tools
16 - Presenting before-and-after examples
17 - Focus on interactive examples

5. Maintaining and Updating Your Portfolio

18 - Gathering feedback and iterating on your portfolio
19 - Leveraging your portfolio in job interviews and networking
20 - Establishing a portfolio refresh schedule

Conclusion

21 - Next steps

Curating Your Instructional Design Portfolio

Authors

David Anderson