A Portfolio in Support of Open Science

Version 3.0 of the Karuta Open Source Portfolio offers new features to capture rubrics, create assignments, present evidence of accomplishment, and support evaluation and assessment. Researchers across international boundaries under a grant led by Kyoto University and Nagoya University are now using Karuta OSP to assist graduate students and postdocs in meeting new expectations for sharing their research data in proprietary and open science repositories as part of the publishing process. This presentation will demonstrate how a Karuta ePortfolio is being used to house rubrics detailing criteria for publishing and sharing data from multiple disciplines and guide graduate student and postdoc seminar participants through the steps of planning for data, organizing data, analyzing data, and publishing and sharing data. Earth and Space Science leads the way in creating a rubric to serve the physical sciences. Rubrics for the biological sciences, social sciences, and humanities will follow. This session is of special interest to graduate faculty mentoring new researchers and instructional designers interested in tailoring ePortfolios to serve multiple educational purposes. Participants will learn about new requirements for publishing research as well as innovative ways for using the Karuta Open Source Portfolio to support learning.

Speeding Up Grading with Karuta 3.0 Dashboards
 

Grading is a very important, yet time-consuming exercise. Unfortunately and especially online, instructors often have to click, scroll, and search for the relevant information, consult rubrics, and communicate the results to students. This is especially the case with self-reflection exercises that are often associated with internships, capstone projects, or portfolio-like assignments.  
 

Using the new Preview functionality in Karuta 3.0, it is quite simple to set-up a dashboard listing the following in a series of single lines: The student's name, overview buttons linking to various parts of the student's assignment or portfolio submission, the student's self-assessment, and a place holder for grading in reference to any type of rubric. The instructor only has to scroll through the lines, click on the overview buttons for windows into the relevant content, and enter the grade.  Students view their grades through their own dashboards. And any Karuta 3.0 dashboard can be exported!
 

In this five-minute presentation, we will do a quick demo to show how easy and speedy grading can become ... with the right tool.