Digital Teaching Portfolio: An Innovation in Teaching File Environment

Abstract

Teaching portfolio as an instrument for the lecturers to engage in professional learning and enhance their teaching effectiveness has been of growing interest in higher education. In general, a teaching portfolio refers to a purposeful collection of evidence, consisting of descriptions, documents and examples of what is good in teaching experience. The selective collection of artefacts offers academic staff a tool to self-actualize personally and professionally, as well as to showcase their professional capacity and potentials for appraisal, tenure, and promotion. In this project, we proposed an innovation in teaching file environment supporting by information technology application. This technology has the potential be a useful tool for promoting professional learning and thereby has the potential to contribute to teaching quality in higher education