Présentation at the ESUP-DAYS #19 & APEREO Europe 2015. February 6 2015. Karuta is a next generation open source ePortfolio suite that has been created in the spirit of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP). Karuta 1.0, which is currently available for piloting, offers dramatic flexibility for designing learning portfolios with rubrics for the assessment of learning outcomes. The presentation will highlight several use cases on accreditation, showcasing, migration from OSP as well as an innovative use of Karuta by IUT-2 Grenoble on competences and professional development.

1. KARUTA 1.0: Ready for
Innovative Use Cases
Jacques Raynauld, HEC Montréal
Eric Giraudin, IUT 2 Grenoble Sillon Alpin
APEREO Europe ESUP Days 2015 – Paris, le 6 février 2015

2. Karuta 1.0: ready for
innovative use cases
Karuta is a next generation open source ePortfolio suite that has been
created in the spirit of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP). Karuta 1.0,
which is currently available for piloting, offers dramatic flexibility for
designing learning portfolios with rubrics for the assessment of learning
outcomes. The presentation will highlight several use cases on
accreditation, showcasing, migration from OSP as well as an innovative
use of Karuta by IUT-2 Grenoble on competences and professional
development.
Summary

3. • Report on the progress made since last year
• Convince you about the ubiquitous and usefulness of
portfolios
• Present some real portfolio use cases – IUT 2 Grenoble
• Invite you to be part of our incubation projet
Objectives
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4. 1. OSP, Apereo and Karuta incubation project
2. Portfolios are everywhere
3. Karuta key features
4. A portfolio use case : school of education
5. Karuta in six slides
6. Simple use cases
7. IUT-2 Grenoble implementation
8. Road-map
Outline
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5. • OSP no longer supported in Sakai 11
• Partners working on the next generation
portfolio: HEC Montreal, Kyoto University, Three
Canoes LLC, IUT-2 Grenoble
• Apereo incubation project in April 2013
• Release of Karuta 1.0 in September 2014
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OSP, Apereo and Karuta Incubation Project
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6. • Learning
• Focus on developing academic or
professional identity
• Assessment
• Focus on programmatic or
institutional improvement
• Showcasing
• Focus on sharing evidence with
others
Exemples
• Internship reports
• Accreditation reports
• Resume
• Teaching Portfolio for tenure
• Admission
Need a very flexible tool. Karuta can do all three types.
Different types of portfolios
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7. • Highly customizable
• IMS LTI enabled (1 and soon 2)
• Multilingual
• Responsive Design
• OSP import (proof of concept)
• Peer assessment
• Reporting capabilities
• jQuery/javascript/front end (Twitter Bootstrap)
• Java/mySQL-Oracle back end
Key features
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8. • Students internships in elementary schools
• Competences framework set by the government
• 12 competences
• 50 + components
• 100 + observables
Self-asssessment
by students on
each component
Comments by
teacher
Final evaluation by
teacher/supervisor
https://flic.kr/p/eeeQap
A portfolio use case : School of education (Montréal)
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A portfolio use case : School of education (Montréal)

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A portfolio use case : School of education (Montréal)

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A portfolio use case : School of education (Montréal)

12. Root
Structure
Unit
UnitStructure
Context
Resource
Learning Objectives
Critical Thinking
Information literacy
Problem solving
Presentation
Critical Thinking
Submit evidence
Instructions (text)
Evidence (file)
Refect on the evidence
Instructions (text)
Comment (text)
A simple learning portfolio
Karuta in 6 slides : #1 ASM Model
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13. Copy
• Menu
Proxy - link
• Proxy
Read value
• Get_ressource
Karuta in 6 slides : #2 operations on the trees
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14. Node
NodeNode
noderes
context
Node
Resource
Node
Leaf
children
children
code
label
text
noderes
context
code
label
text
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Karuta in 6 slides : #3 Nodes/leafs
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15. Label
• Text
Actions/role
• Read
• Edit
• Delete
• Comment
• Submit
• Show
• Information
Display
• CSS
• Free
positionning
• inline
Semantic Tag
• Powerful
possibility
Karuta in 6 slides : #4 properties on Nodes/leafs
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16. 16
Karuta in 6 slides : #5 architecture
Application (javascript jQuery html css)
Karuta-core (javascript jQuery html css)
Karuta-Backend (java)
File Server (java)MySQL Oracle
BrowserServer
Rest API Web Services
Internet
Ajax
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17. KARUTA
Designer
Prototype
- Pilot
KARUTA
Production
Karuta in 6 slides : #6 prototyping
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18. A simple portfolio – adding structures and resources
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Structures
Ressources

19. Learning portfolio : student self-assesment
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20. Learning portfolio : adding multiple evidences
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21. Evaluation portfolio : the rubrics
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22. Evaluation portfolio : tutor and rubrics
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23. Evaluation portfolio : a little touch of color
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24. Presentation portfolio : free positionning
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25. Presentation portfolio : free positionning
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26. Presentation portfolio : free positionning
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27. Presentation portfolio : EUROPASS resume
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28. IUT-2 Grenoble
• Eric Giraudin presentation of the IUT-2 portfolio initiative.
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29. Road-map
• Karuta 1.1 February 2015
• Continue the IUT-2 deployment
• OSP import – real cases
• Usability and showcase portfolios
• Load testing and fine-tuning
• Apereo June 2015 in Baltimore (workshop)
• Building our community
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30. Thank you
• Merci pour votre attention!
Follow us on :
www.apereo.org/content/karuta
English Google+ page : KARUTA ePortfolio
French Google+ page : KARUTA Francophone
Githb: https://github.com/karutaproject
jacques.raynauld@hec.ca
eric.giraudin@iut2.upmf-grenoble.fr
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