The PhD ePortfolio™ Project:
Integrating Scholarship, Teaching, and Technologies

The University of Iowa College of Education is recognized for the development of the Iowa ePortfolio™ Model. This model is a web-based system that combines the integration of technologies, scholarship, teaching, and service. The Iowa ePortfolio™ Model provides the architecture within which students can demonstrate competence in an academic discipline and showcase their strengths to a range of relevant audiences including search committees and hiring officials at national and international levels. The framework allows doctoral students the opportunity to provide authentic evidence of scholarly work and to highlight academic strengths and achievement by linking artifacts to their ePortfolio™ by using advanced web and multimedia technologies connected to templates. As a result, College of Education doctorates can now enter their new career with a set of integrated digital tools that afford short-term career advantages and long-term professional benefits.

The College of Education designed the first ePortfolio™ in 1996 and The University of Iowa now holds the trademarks for the following terms: ePortfolio™, Digital BackPack™ and Cyber ToolBox™.

The PhD ePortfolio™ Project is a special collaboration among the following offices in the College of Education:  Dean’s Office and Education Technology Center.