How do you showcase your digital learning work?

1 Choose your audience and purpose

Before you showcase your digital learning work, you need to think about who you want to reach and why. Depending on your audience and purpose, you may need to adapt your style, tone, format, and content. For example, if you want to showcase your work to potential employers, you may want to highlight your skills, competencies, and results. If you want to showcase your work to peers or learners, you may want to emphasize your process, challenges, and solutions. If you want to showcase your work to the general public, you may want to focus on your impact, relevance, and innovation.

2 Select your best work

You may have created many digital learning projects, but not all of them may be suitable for showcasing. You need to select your best work that reflects your goals, values, and strengths. You also need to consider the quality, currency, and diversity of your work. You want to showcase work that is well-designed, up-to-date, and representative of your range of skills and interests. You may also want to showcase work that is original, creative, and engaging.

3 Create a narrative

When showcasing your digital learning work, it's not enough to just present facts and figures. You need to create a narrative that tells a story about your work, connecting with your audience and highlighting your achievements. To do this, you should craft a catchy title that summarizes your work, provide a brief introduction to set the scene, organize your work into sections or stages with a clear structure, and link all of this to your goals, challenges, and solutions. Lastly, you should end with a compelling conclusion that summarizes your work and showcases your impact.

4 Use multimedia and interactivity

Digital learning has many benefits, one of which is the ability to use multimedia and interactive elements to showcase your work. Images, videos, audio, animations, charts, graphs, tables, infographics, quizzes, polls, surveys, games, links, buttons, menus, sliders and code blocks can all be used to illustrate your work and add visual appeal. Additionally, these elements can help test your audience's knowledge and solicit feedback as well as enable them to navigate and explore your work. All of these tools can help you enhance your presentation and engage your audience.

5 Choose your platform and format

Finally, you need to select the best platform and format for showcasing your work. Depending on your audience and purpose, you may want to use different platforms and formats to reach and impress them. For instance, a website or blog can be used to create a portfolio or showcase page that displays your work and provides details and links. Additionally, you could use a social media platform or community forum to share your work and invite comments and likes. An online course platform or learning management system can host your work and enroll learners. Furthermore, a webinar or podcast can present your work and interact with your audience live or recorded. Lastly, you could use a slide deck or poster to summarize your work and highlight the key points.

6 Here’s what else to consider

This is a space to share examples, stories, or insights that don’t fit into any of the previous sections. What else would you like to add?