Receive hands-on experience working with Karuta, a new open source portfolio created by HEC Montreal (in association with the University of Montreal) for use in assessing and showcasing learning. Karuta was developed in the spirit of the Open Source Portfolio (OSP) tools in Sakai. It offers many of the same benefits of OSP while providing more flexibility for designing and customizing portfolio workflows and reporting on results of their use. We aim to make learning more visible and reflective so that portfolio users become more aware of and in control of their own learning. Karuta is LTI-enabled for integration with the Sakai CLE and adapted for mobile devices. It is currently in use at the University of Montreal, HEC Montreal, IUT-2 Grenoble, and Kyoto University. Support for Karuta is available through Three Canoes LLC. Join our team for this hands-on session and learn how Karuta can be implemented to provide a unique portfolio solution for your institution.

1. KARUTA
HANDS-ON EXPERIENCE WITH A NEW
EPORTFOLIO INTEGRATED WITH SAKAI
Jacques Raynauld – Olivier Gerbé, HEC Montréal
Janice Smith, Three Canoes LLC
Shoji Kajita, Kyoto University
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2. OUTLINE
1. KarutaProject.org – Janice Smith
2. Karuta overview
3. Karuta workshop
4. Additionnal functionalities
5. Road-map
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3. KARUTA OVERVIEW
Goal of the workshop
• Replicate a stylized simple portfolio … and possibly add
some of your own features.
• Know more about the functionalities of Karuta.
• Connect and participate to our small community
Tools
• Karuta account + simple portfolios
• Workshop sheets (2)
• Google doc : http://tinyurl.com/ltw8b85
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4. PORTFOLIOS
Many types of portfolios
• Learning portfolios
• Showcase portfolios
• Assessment portfolios
• A specific collection of artifacts and reflections that represent
an individual’s learning and accomplishments within a
programmatic learning context.
• Evidence is linked to learning outcomes and evaluated using
rubrics.
• Reports aggregate and analyze data and identify
representative artifacts.
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5. OUR APPROACH
A framework in the spirit of OSP that permits …
• to organize different resources (text, documents, rubrics,
comments, etc.)…
• … according to a workflow for different users (students,
tutors, etc.) …
• … for assessment, guidance, reporting and presentation.
Lessons learned over the last three years
No one portfolio is the same
Flexibility is key, prototyping is a must.
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6. DESIGNER ROLE
KARUTA
Designer
Prototype
- Pilot
KARUTA
Production
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17. STRUCTURE-UNIT
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20. METADATA – CONTINUED

21. LEVERAGING KARUTA
SPECIAL RESOURCES
Item
Get_Resource
Proxy
Menu
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22. EXAMPLE
SUMMARY PAGE (MATRICES)
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23. TECHNOLOGY
1. jQuery, javascript client
2. REST APIs implemented in Java and mySQL
3. Responsive Design
4. Twitter Bootstrap CSS
5. Group-role permissions
6. IMS LTI-1 (Three Canoes)
7. Almost LEAP2A (XML import/export)
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24. ADDITIONNAL
FEATURES
1. Multilingual (French,
English, Spanish,
Japanese)
2. Export, import, share,
print portfolios
3. Showcase portfolio
(ppt like)
4. Dashboards – matrices
(with special javascript)
5. Reports
6. Forms, online editing
(no pop-up)
7. HTML output
(publication)
8. Admin tools for
instanciation of
portfolios
9. Peer assessment
10. Notification
11. Social network
integration (Elgg)
12. Responsive design
13. UI customizable
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25. ROAD-MAP
1. Apereo Community Incubation Project
2. Improve the UI
3. Investigate scalability issues
4. Improve Admin tools
5. Working on KARUTA 1.0 (September 2014)
6. Various pilots
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Demo :
https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/
display/OSP/Portfolios+for+the+Fu
ture+of+Sakai

26. QUESTIONS?
Thanks to:
Olivier Gerbé, HEC Montréal
Janice Smith, Three Canoes LLC
Shoji Kajita, Kyoto University
Eric Giradin and Marc Vassoille, IUT-2 Grenoble
Nobry Ouk, MATI Montréal
And all our partner schools
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