Abstract: During 15 years of working within the eportfolio community - at the University of Rhode Island, on the Board of the Mellon Foundation-funded Open Source Portfolio Initiative (OSP became part of Sakai), and then founder and president of the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning from 2009 to 2016 - and, as I wrote dozens of published articles about eportfolio and numerous "Batson Blogs" for AAEEBL during those same years - I have reviewed my own view of "eportfolio" constantly.
I evolved in my own thinking about eportfolio from first seeing it primarily as a technology application that elicits good practices for student development to now seeing eportfolio (the technology AND the theory) as a direction-setter for how information technology in higher education, used perceptively, can re-form HE globally. Eportfolio, as it is being best used as a high-impact practice, is a learning-design model for the current era.