Tutorial Proposal for ITiCSE 2002 Title Collaborative Teaching and Learning of Object-Oriented Modelling using Ideogramic UML Organizers Klaus Marius Hansen Anne Vinter Ratzer Computer Science Department Ideogramic ApS University of Aarhus Mejlgade 45 Aabogade 34 8000 Aarhus C 8200 Aarhus N avratzer@ideogramic.com marius@daimi.au.dk (+45) 8731 0036(+45) 8942 5605 Klaus Marius Hansen has a M.Sc. in computer science from the University of Aarhus. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in the area of object-oriented modelling. He is also a product manager at Ideogramic ApS responsible for their UML products. His CV is online at http://www.daimi.au.dk/~marius/who.html. Anne Vinter Ratzer is employed as a software designer at Ideogramic ApS. In her Master's thesis work from the University of Aarhus, she focussed on the use of design principles in advanced user interface design. She was previously employed on the CPN/2000 project (http://www.daimi.au.dk/CPnets/CPN2000/) that created an advanced Coloured Petri Net editor based on novel interaction techniques. Category Half-day. Tutorial Description Modelling enjoys a central position in object-oriented software development. Unfortunately, techniques for modelling, and the industry standard Unified Modelling Language (UML) in particular, have been criticized as being too complex in teaching situations. The tutorial will present a mixture of techniques for overcoming this complexity in teaching and ...