Teaching Goal Modeling in Undergraduate Education

Abstract

Goal modeling in general, and i* in particular, are typically taught in specialized courses that are part of postgraduate programs. In this paper, we report on our experience concerning teaching i* and its basic, essential dialect called simple i* to over 130 first-year students of a bachelor degree in information science. We present the intended learning outcomes and activities, we introduce the simple i* dialect that was used in the labs, we discuss the gained knowledge was tested in the final exam, and we discuss the obtained results.