Methodology To Design An Academic Portfolio

This research aims to define guidelines for the design of the docent portfolio in university teaching through using technologies of information and communication technologies (ICT). The development of this model is based on the Regulation of Academic System and the organization of learning issued by the Council of Higher Education of Ecuador. For the dissemination and knowledge of this model academic portfolio was necessary to create a virtual course. This virtual course was developed in a e-learning platform.The methodology used is action research: planning, acting, evaluates and reflects.In the first stage the development of a virtual course with instructional design based on the methodology of teaching, Reflection, Conceptualization and Application (ERCA) is planned. This design has some guidelines such as: teacher data, material support, evidence of learning, assessment tools and literature. The model designed in the virtual course uses tools of information technology and communication simple to learn and operate. In the second stage of the methodologies, this online course is available for a group of university professors from the Central University of Ecuador, who will follow the online course and learn how to develop the academic portfolio. In the third stage, teachers are assessed on what they learned in the virtual course. In the fourth stage, each teacher reflects on what has been learned and issues its comments. The results show that a significant percentage of teachers said that the development of an academic portfolio helps self-evaluation and improvement organization in each of their subjects. In addition, the portfolio serves as evidence within the accreditation of courses, and that the use of this model helps to improve the teaching-learning process.In conclusion, studies show that it is the use of well-structured academic portfolio by teachers and to help improve the teaching essential - learning. Moreover, this model is an evidence for the process of accreditation and quality assurance of careers and college academic programs and information showing the processes applied in the classroom, methodologies and results.Finally, each academic portfolio is a historical evidence evaluation with the aim of continually improving, with a view to excellence in quality academic environment.