Resources

Portfolio: A receptacle or case for keeping loose sheets of paper, prints, drawings, maps, music, or the like; usually in the form of a large book-cover, and sometimes having sheets of paper fixed in it, between which specimens are placed.

Oxford English Dictionary

"The Doctor forward stepp'd to shew
The wealth of his port-folio."

William Combe The tour of Doctor Syntax in search of the picturesque, 1812

Background reading on Course Portfolios

The Course Portfolio, William Cerbin, APS Observer, 14(4), 2001.
Course Anatomy, Lee Shulman. In The Course Portfolio, Pat Hutchings (ed.)
The Portfolio: Sonnet, Mirror and Map Mary Diez, 1994

Course Portfolio Collections

There are several Course Portfolio collections you can browse. They are pretty diverse, in subject area, intent, and what they contain. For example, see:

Peer Review of Teaching Project, at University of Nebraska, Lincoln
The Carnegie Foundation Gallery of Teaching and Learning Higher Education Portfolio collection
Indiana University's Course Portfolio Initiative
Previous Disciplinary Commons: initial teaching of programming (itp) and computer science.

Example Portfolios

Dana Fritz's 2002 "benchmark" portfolio for the module ARTP, ARCH, IDES, TXCD 140 Perceptual Drawing (available from the Peer Review of Teaching Project, as above) because of its emphasis on examples of student work and assessment. (Go to "Explore Course Portfolios" and type in her name). You'll note that Dana has produced a series of portfolios for this module over several years, each examining a different aspect of her practice.
Karen Hammerness, Linda Darling-Hammond, and Lee Shulman's Learning From Cases because it displays a diversity of evidence - quotes, video clips, reflective prose; and a diversity of product - the portfolio itself, an archive of student work, a subsequent academic paper.