A tool for the creation of interactive online tutorials about conceptual models.
The following conceptual models are supported:
Using Concept Modeler, a taecher can create a tutorial page consisting of:
When the tutorial page is presented, a student can:
The tutorial page can be exported as a SCORM Sharable Content Object. Using additional tools, this allows integrating the tutorial page into a larger online tutorial, bundling it up into a SCORM Package Interchange File, and deploying it on an online learning management system.
This project is in an experimental state. Do not use it for the creation of real learning content, as you might face issues with the tutorial pages once you deploy them. Also, we do not guarantee backwards compatiblity of XML source files created using the tool.
Concept Modeler is dual-licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License LGPL and the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.
Concept Modeler is a remnant of a project application, which was made at the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HSLU) in 2001. Unfortunately, the project was not admitted, but I had already put a considerable effort in my spare time into the prototype for the class diagram editor.
In 2006, the project seemed to become a revival, as part of a collaborative project between HSLU and the Scuola universitaria professionale della Svizzera italiana (SUPSI). Unfortunately, HSLU had to back out of the project in 2007. The result of this collaboration were two concept modeler tools for entity relationship diagrams.
And finally, also in 2007, Florian Padrun, has contributed the editor for activity diagrams to this project, as part of his diploma project at HSLU.
ConceptModeler[CER]
for Entity-Relationship diagrams:
ConceptModeler[OO]
for UML class diagrams:
Entity Relationship:
Demo Tutorial
A very crude demo tutorial.
UML Class Diagram:
An account class and an instance. Messages can be dropped on the instance to deposit and withdraw money.
Concept-Modeler for Conceptual Entity-Relationship Diagrams (Click image to zoom).
A SCORM Tutorial built with Concept-Modeler for Conceptual Entity-Relationship Diagrams (Click image to zoom).