May 15–17, 2017 in Prague, Czech Republic
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Title: Large Scale Training through Spoken Tutorials to Promote and use OpenModelica
Authors: Kannan Moudgalya, Bhargava Nemmaru, Kaushik Datta, Priyam Nayak, Rahul Jain, Peter Fritzson and Adrian Pop
Abstract:The step-by-step self-teaching approach through audio-video
tutorials, known as Spoken Tutorials, has been very successful.
About 3.4 million students in India have taken at least one course
during the past 6-year period, of which 1.6 million students have
attended the rapidly expanding course programme during 2016. This
programme has now been expanded by a newly developed course in
Modeling and Simulation with Modelica using the OpenModelica open
source tool, primarily via the OMEdit graphical user interface. The
spoken tutorial programme is exclusively based on free and open
source software. This paper gives an introduction to the spoken
tutorial approach and presents the recently developed spoken
tutorial series for Modelica using OpenModelica. Feedback of
participants shows that this series is an effective tool for
self-learning of OpenModelica. The paper also presents a new web
version that generalises the interactive DrModelica course material,
OMWebbook: it enables students to learn Modelica, do text-based
modeling exercises, and run simulations without needing to install a
Modelica tool. OMWebbook is also planned to be covered in a future
update to the spoken tutorial course on Modelica.
Links: Full paper