Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are a new way of learning. MOOCs are massive. They are designed for many people who are enrolled in the courses. A course is often taken by more than thousand persons. Compared to other leaning models, MOOCs are completely open and everybody can take courses. Sometimes a fee for the course or for the certificate is collected but everybody can take the course without any other requirements such as a specific educational level. A MOOC takes place in the World Wide Web and this means you can do it at any place you want to.
I have developed a MOOC about the UML Class Diagram as part of my master thesis with the support of professor Gerti Kappel. It is the first Massive Open Online Course created from parts of the course “Object-Oriented Modeling” of the Vienna University of Technology using the book UML @ Classroom.
In this course you will learn about the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and its many different diagrams. The focus is on the Class Diagram which is very important in software development. You will be able to specify, visualize and document class diagrams of software systems .
This MOOC is organized in two weeks of self-studying with the provided learning material and quizzes. In each week you will deal with small quizzes while you discover the learning material and there will be a weekly quiz about what you‘ve learned.
We will provide a peer-reviewed project in the 3rd week. It takes about 5 hours to do the project and you have two weeks to hand it in. At the beginning of the 2nd week the project instructions go online. After you have uploaded your project, you have to assess a project of your course colleagues.
Additionally you can use a forum for discussion on interesting topics or if you need any help.
Thanks for making this course available. However, I cannot see where I can register for the course at http://www.mooc-uml.at. I created an account at moodle.org and tried logging in at your source web site using my moodle credentials but that didn’t work either.
Hello!
Unfortunately this course is not connected with moodle.org. Therefore you have to create an account at http://www.mooc-uml.at/login/index.php. Just click “Create new account”, verify you email and then you can do a self-enrollment in the course.
Let me know when you have any problems.
Sorry, I guess because there’s a moodle.org link at the bottom of the page I thought it was connected with moodle.org and that maybe my moodle credentials would work on your site.
No matter, the login link you provided just pops up the standard http Authentication Required dialog for me. There is no “Create new account” link to click.
There should be on the right side of the authentication side the possibility to create a new account. It says “Is this your first time here?”. Then the steps are explained for creating a new account.
I had the same problem. It looks like you can’t get to the login page without first authenticating…which you can’t, because you haven’t created an account yet…
Hello!
It seems that maybe the country could be the problem. Byron is in the USA. Ed from where are you trying to reach it? In Austria I don’t know students with such problems. I will investigate with the moodle provider tomorrow.
Yes, I am in the USA.
There is only quizzes in the website
Hello Joseph, unfortunately the course is already completed!
Hi, is there any new courses we cann apply for? I also see just quizzes! But I need a UML course urgently. I live in Vienna. Can you please help me finding a proper course?