How Course Portfolios Can Advance the Scholarship and Practice of Management Teaching

Abstract

The authors believe the development, peer review, and sharing of course portfolios can significantly improve the scholarship and teaching of management. To make this case, they provide background information about course portfolios, including origins, defining features, purposes, and potential benefits. They then identify actual portfolio projects and resources that are currently publicly available, including an Organizational Behavior course portfolio they developed. They conclude with recommendations for further action by business schools, individual faculty members, and professional organizations such as the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society and the Academy of Management.

Course Portfolios as Evidence‐Based Reflection

“…Why shouldn't a course portfolio fit that definition? Those who champion course portfolios envision a future in which professional associations' websites become repositories for course portfolios that can be browsed and used to improve the overall teaching in the discipline (New et al, 2008). Creating a forum or electronic journal to showcase and publicly discuss such documents would provide a form of peer review in an area that would truly benefit teaching anthropologists.…”

Positioning ePortfolios in an integrated curriculum

“…Strong arguments for the use of ePortfolios in Business curricula have been made within the context of Management by (Chappell and Schermerhorn, 2003). Yet, despite a long tradition of paper based portfolios in some fields (used by teachers for promotion purposes in Management Education), and some subsequent use of teaching portfolios, ePortfolios still appear relatively underused in Business education (New et al , 2008). There are a limited number of different uses of ePortfolios to be found in the literature.…”

“…An investigation of their suitability for career and employment planning purposes by employed professionals in the service industries (Smith, 2008). The adoption of teaching course portfolios to improve the scholarship of teaching in a course (New et al , 2008). Program‐wide uses of ePortfolios for Business education curricula are equally hard to find.…”

“…The adoption of teaching course portfolios to improve the scholarship of teaching in a course (New et al , 2008).…”

What are the research focuses regarding learning in the field of operations management in higher education? The case of Spain in 2017

“…Instruction based on the evidence of what best promotes the learning of our students (Burke-Smalley, 2014; Cascio, 2007;Morrell & Learmonth, 2015) is a trend in work and research that is gradually gaining ground, and is related to the foundation of the movement created under the label of scholarship (Boyer, 1990;Delbecq, 2007;Fernandez March, 2008;Mitchell & Harvey, in press;Pearce, 2007). This movement has had some, albeit weak, repercussion in the area of management (Ashkanasy, 2007;Delbecq, 2007;Gallos, 2008;New et al, 2008;Pearce, 2007) and accounting (Wilson, 2012). However, to date, there does not appear to be any relevant manifestation in the area of operations management.…”