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Technology-Enhanced Support for Learning Conceptual Modeling

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2012, EMMSAD 2012)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 113))

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This paper describes an optimized didactic environment to support and improve learning achievements for conceptual modeling. In particular, it describes computer-aided techniques to address various learning challenges observed in the teaching process such as: hybrid background of students, enrollment of a large number of students, the complexity of industrial tools and difficulties in abstract thinking. The didactic environment has been developed and subsequently optimized in the context of the course Architecture and Modeling of Management Information Systems. It includes 1) diagnostic testing with automated feedback 2) an adapted modeling tool 3) an MDA based simulation feature. The didactic tools were evaluated positively by the students and a positive impact was observed on the student’s capabilities to construct object-oriented conceptual models.

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  1. Management Information Systems, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Naamsestraat 69, 3000, Leuven, Belgium

    Gayane Sedrakyan & Monique Snoeck

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. IbisSoft AB, Stockholm, Box 19567, SE-10432, Stockholm, Sweden

    Ilia Bider

  2. LogicBlox, Australia, and INTI International University, Malaysia

    Terry Halpin

  3. Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Sem Sælands Vei 7-9, 7491, Trondheim, Norway

    John Krogstie

  4. University Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Selmin Nurcan

  5. Erik Proper, PRC Henri Tudor, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

    Erik Proper

  6. Aalen University, Aalen, Germany

    Rainer Schmidt

  7. University of Haifa, Carmel Mountain, 31905, Haifa, Israel

    Pnina Soffer

  8. Department of Business Informatics, University of Gdansk, ul. Piaskowa 9, 81-864, Sopot, Poland

    Stanisław Wrycza

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Sedrakyan, G., Snoeck, M. (2012). Technology-Enhanced Support for Learning Conceptual Modeling. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2012 2012. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 113. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31072-0_30

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