ABSTRACT
Candyce’s story: The master’s program in educational leadership and policy that I teach requires an ePortfolio as part of our culminating project. I typically teach the course that students take to prepare for this project. This past term, one student in my class said the first day that she was anxious to get started on her ePortfolio as soon as possible. This comment was surprising, as usually students are sometimes intimidated by learning the technology required to do the project and are just nervous in general. On further exploration, it turned out that this student was a candidate for a policy position in a national organization in Washington, D.C. In her last phone interview, she was asked to send her ePortfolio if she had one. It was one of those moments that brought a smile to my face. ePortfolios were breaking through the walls of academia and entering the halls of employment. It was a sign that ePortfolios were becoming not only a promising practice in higher education but also useful in different settings.
