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Climb Your Way to the Model: Teaching UML to Software Engineering Students

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Unified Modeling Language (UML) courses are an essential part of software engineering curricula. There is increasing evidence that embedding active learning techniques in courses in general, and in UML courses in particular, increases students’ motivation and performance. In this paper, we contribute to this body of work by presenting model for embedding active learning in an undergraduate UML course. The model was used throughout a course, providing interesting results, and promoting students’ participation and motivation. We present our insights and plans for further inspection of the model.

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  1. Software Engineering Department, Ort Braude College, Karmiel, Israel

    Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel & Julia Sheidin

  2. Information Systems Department, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Naomi Unkelos-Shpigel, Julia Sheidin & Moran Kupfer

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  1. Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg

    Henderik A. Proper

  2. Stockholm University, Kista, Sweden

    Janis Stirna

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Unkelos-Shpigel, N., Sheidin, J., Kupfer, M. (2019). Climb Your Way to the Model: Teaching UML to Software Engineering Students. In: Proper, H., Stirna, J. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering Workshops. CAiSE 2019. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 349. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20948-3_4

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