Faculty of Education

Pros and Cons

Creating a digital portfolio has advantages and disadvantages. Here are some of the advantages:

• highly portable
• convenient for interviewers
• can market professional practice
• easily revised over time
• is evidence of your ability to deal with technology
• include forms of representation that would not be possible otherwise (e.g. video)
• easliy accesible from anywhere that has an Internet connection
• extends the audience - in situations where you are at a distance

Here are some disadvantages:

• can be time consuming (although it doesn't have to be - but it always takes longer than you think)
• in an interview situation you may still want a hardcopy version if there is no Internet device available
• not all interviewers will take the time to look at a digital portfolio or appreciate the effort you have put into it (this is also true of hardcopy portfolios)

After weighing out the issues, and if you think a digital portfolio will be useful, then you are encouraged to proceed.