Making UML "hip": A First Experience Report on Using Modern Teaching Tools for Object-Oriented Modelling

M. Brandsteidl; Petra Kaufmann; Martina Seidl

Making UML "hip": A First Experience Report on Using Modern Teaching Tools for Object-Oriented Modelling

M. Brandsteidl, Petra Kaufmann, Martina Seidl

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Abstract

We steadily aim at improving our first year´s university course Introduction to Object-Oriented Modelling. To that end we explore how technological teaching support may be used to extend the classical classroom experience for the students. For several years, we used Web-based out-of-the-box e-learning tools for providing additional teaching support. This solution works well, but has some severe restrictions. In this paper, we show how to overcome these restrictions with a custom implementation. Further, we are now starting to explore mobile facilities as offered by smartphone Apps as well as social media facilities in order to enhance the learning experience in our modelling course. We report on our first experiences with these kinds of technologies.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the MODELS 2013 Educators Symposium
Pages	1-8
Number of pages	8
Publication status	Published - Sept 2013

Publication series

Name	CEUR Workshop Proceedings
ISSN (Print)	1613-0073

Fields of science

102011 Formal languages
102 Computer Sciences
101 Mathematics

JKU Focus areas

Computation in Informatics and Mathematics

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

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