This document discusses how ePortfolios can be used to link classroom work to career placement and introduce competency-based education. It provides examples of ePortfolio use cases from French universities where students self-evaluate skills, document experiences, define career paths, and showcase potential. The presentation outlines how the open source Karuta ePortfolio tool is being used flexibly in France to build portfolios that aggregate academic, professional and personal experiences according to different user workflows. It concludes that ePortfolios can help bridge the traditional "silos" between curriculum and career centers.

1. Toward Competency-Based
Programs as a Bridge to Career
ePortfolios: Karuta Open Source
Portfolio Use Cases from French
Universities
Jacques Raynauld, HEC Montréal, ePortfolium
Janice Smith, Karuta Open source Project
2018 Sakai Virtual Conference
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2. Competency-based education has many different interpretations. In its purest form, students develop
the required skills at their own pace by completing a series of authentic projects under the guidance
of their instructors. In a less dramatic version, students are asked in certain courses, projects, or
internship programs to self-evaluate their performance according to a set of skills using pre-defined
criteria. In all cases, students are asked to become much more reflective in their learning, to identify
their strengths and weaknesses, and to submit action plans. This process is often required of
students when they access their university career centers for assistance in producing a winning
resume. In this presentation, we will review several Karuta Open Source Portfolio use cases from
French universities where students 1) Self-evaluate and receive evaluation of their skills
development in learning activities; 2) Formalize and decode their academic and non-academic
experiences; 3) Define and affirm chosen career paths; and 4) Showcase their professional potential.
These use cases show how simple ePortfolios can link classroom work to career placement and
provide a pathway to a gradual introduction of competency-based education.
Abstract
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3. Session overview ?
● Silos : curriculum and career
centers
● Competency-based education: A
French approach
● French Universities : some
interesting use cases
● Karuta Open Source Portfolios :
building real prototypes
● Demo of a generic curriculum-
career ePortfolio
● Conclusion: Bridging the silos
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4. Take away ?
● Explore the idea of preparing
your students to the job market
● Think big! Start small!
● Find the right actors
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5. Silos : Curriculum and Career Centers
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6. https://www.facultyfocus.com/uncategorized/from-curriculum-to-career-
connecting-curriculum-outcomes-to-future-careers/ 6

7. ● Research suggests that students are not
using career services on college campuses.
● Foster discussions in the classroom related
to professional objectives
● Link to career services resources
● Professional speakers
● Cover the top skills employers seek in
candidates and on the resumes.
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8. Competency Based Education (A French approach)
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9. Competency definition
Competence means the
proven ability to use
knowledge, skills and
personal, social and/ or
methodological abilities, in
work or study situations and in
professional and personal
development.
https://ec.europa.eu/ploteus/sites/eac-
eqf/files/broch_en.pdf
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10. Recruters
(looking for
competencies)
Universities
(resources to develop
competencies)
Students
(building and offering
competencies)
Competencies
+a way to link actors
Competency
Eco-system
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11. French Competency Approach (APC)
Competency evaluation
Competency-based
Learning (projects,
internships, etc.)
Competency presentation (resume)
Professionnal and personel
development
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12. Getting info on a profession
Competencies required for an
insurance agent
French government website for all professions
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13. Softskills
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14. Some interesting use cases
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15. Karuta ePortfolios in France (17)
IUT-2 Grenoble Alps
IDEFI Promising Grenoble Alps
Grenoble School of Management
Polytech Annecy-Chambéry
Université de Poitiers (Médecine)
Université de la Rochelle
CNAM
Grenoble-INP
EPF Sceaux
Université de Valenciennes
...
...
Running
Pilot
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16. The IUT2 ePortfolio with Karuta
Documenting academic, professional, and personal experiences
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Aggregated view of all
documented experiences:
- Academic Degrees
- Professional Experiences
- Other Training
- Personal Experiences
- Second Languages
- Intercultural Quiz
Apereo Teaching and Learning Awards (ATLAS) for 2018.

17. Polytech Annecy-Chambéry ePortfolio
Learning and Evaluation Portfolio (Karuta)
Competencies
Dashboard of progression over the semesters of the project
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18. Karuta Open Source Portfolios : building real
prototypes
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19. Karuta Project
● A next generation open source
portfolio tool
● Created in the spirit of the Open
Source Portfolio Project (OSP)
tools in Sakai
● Partners: HEC Montréal, IUT-2
Grenoble, Kyoto University
● International board
● Commercial affiliate : ePortfolium
● Release of Karuta 2.3: Spring 2018
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20. Karuta: A flexible tool to build portfolios
● Organize different resources
(text, documents, rubrics,
comments, etc.) …
● … according to a workflow for
different users (students,
instructors, evaluators, etc.)
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21. Demo of a generic curriculum-career ePortfolio
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23. Conclusion
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24. Career ePortfolios: Working to bridge the silos!
Course #1 Course #2 Co-curricular
activities
Internship
Study abroad
Career Center
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25. For more information
Info: karutaproject.org
Try: eportfolium.com/karuta
Download: github.com/karutaproject
Contact: karuta@apereo.org
jacques.raynauld@gmail.com
janice.smith@threecanoes.com
KarutaOsp
Questions?
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