Paper Info
Title
Impact of the Use of Industrial Modelling Tools on Modelling Education
Abstract
It has been stated that industrial-grade modelling tools are unsuitable for teaching modelling. We assume, however, that the experiences of the teachers and the students is strongly connected to the support available. In this paper, we present our experience with a university course on software modelling. In the first year of the course, we used a commercial modelling tool, in the second year the open-source alternative Papyrus. Our quantitative analysis shows that the industrial-grade modelling tools with all their complexity did not have a negative impact on the students' experience of modelling. We analyse why our experience differs from published accounts and conclude that the availability of a tool champion and tailored instruction material is key. From this, we derive lessons learned and give recommendations on how to successfully use industrial-strength modelling tools in the classroom.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1109/CSEET.2016.18
2016 IEEE 29th International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Training (CSEET)
Keywords
Field
DocType
Modelling Education,Open Source,Tooling
Systems engineering,Software engineering,Computer science,Modeling language,Champion,Strongly connected component
Conference
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1093-0175
4
0.45
References 
Authors
14
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Grischa Liebel19711.54
Rogardt Heldal233136.56
Jan-Philipp Steghöfer317822.88