I have been catching up on OpenGL 4.4 lately and realized that there are few working examples on the newer versions of OpenGL. The following code uses Assimp, GLFW and GLEW to load and render all supported Assimp formats and requires OpenGL 3.0 or above.

You will be required to set up an OpenGL context, I will presume that you have the knowledge to do that (if not, I can recommend this tutorial from opengl-tutorial.org).

To use the Mesh class, this is all that is required:

Mesh *mesh = new Mesh("filename.dae");
while (!glfwWindowShouldClose(window)) {
	mesh->render();
}
delete m;

The combined source and example shaders can be downloaded at the bottom of this page.

Source code

Mesh.h

#pragma once

#include "include/GL/glew.h"
#include "include/GL/glfw3.h"

#include "include\assimp\scene.h"
#include "include\assimp\mesh.h"

#include 

class Mesh
{
public :
	struct MeshEntry {
		static enum BUFFERS {
			VERTEX_BUFFER, TEXCOORD_BUFFER, NORMAL_BUFFER, INDEX_BUFFER
		};
		GLuint vao;
		GLuint vbo[4];

		unsigned int elementCount;

		MeshEntry(aiMesh *mesh);
		~MeshEntry();

		void load(aiMesh *mesh);
		void render();
	};

	std::vector<MeshEntry*>; meshEntries;

public:
	Mesh(const char *filename);
	~Mesh(void);

	void render();
};

Mesh.cpp

#include "Mesh.h"

#include "include\assimp\Importer.hpp"
#include "include\assimp\postprocess.h"


/**
*	Constructor, loading the specified aiMesh
**/
Mesh::MeshEntry::MeshEntry(aiMesh *mesh) {
	vbo[VERTEX_BUFFER] = NULL;
	vbo[TEXCOORD_BUFFER] = NULL;
	vbo[NORMAL_BUFFER] = NULL;
	vbo[INDEX_BUFFER] = NULL;

	glGenVertexArrays(1, &amp;vao);
	glBindVertexArray(vao);

	elementCount = mesh->mNumFaces * 3;

	if(mesh->HasPositions()) {
		float *vertices = new float[mesh->mNumVertices * 3];
		for(int i = 0; i < mesh->mNumVertices; ++i) {
			vertices[i * 3] = mesh->mVertices[i].x;
			vertices[i * 3 + 1] = mesh->mVertices[i].y;
			vertices[i * 3 + 2] = mesh->mVertices[i].z;
		}

		glGenBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[VERTEX_BUFFER]);
		glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo[VERTEX_BUFFER]);
		glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 3 * mesh->mNumVertices * sizeof(GLfloat), vertices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);

		glVertexAttribPointer(0, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, NULL);
		glEnableVertexAttribArray (0);

		delete[] vertices;
	}


	if(mesh->HasTextureCoords(0)) {
		float *texCoords = new float[mesh->mNumVertices * 2];
		for(int i = 0; i < mesh->mNumVertices; ++i) {
			texCoords[i * 2] = mesh->mTextureCoords[0][i].x;
			texCoords[i * 2 + 1] = mesh->mTextureCoords[0][i].y;
		}

		glGenBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[TEXCOORD_BUFFER]);
		glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo[TEXCOORD_BUFFER]);
		glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 2 * mesh->mNumVertices * sizeof(GLfloat), texCoords, GL_STATIC_DRAW);

		glVertexAttribPointer(1, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, NULL);
		glEnableVertexAttribArray (1);

		delete[] texCoords;
	}


	if(mesh->HasNormals()) {
		float *normals = new float[mesh->mNumVertices * 3];
		for(int i = 0; i < mesh->mNumVertices; ++i) {
			normals[i * 3] = mesh->mNormals[i].x;
			normals[i * 3 + 1] = mesh->mNormals[i].y;
			normals[i * 3 + 2] = mesh->mNormals[i].z;
		}

		glGenBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[NORMAL_BUFFER]);
		glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo[NORMAL_BUFFER]);
		glBufferData(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 3 * mesh->mNumVertices * sizeof(GLfloat), normals, GL_STATIC_DRAW);

		glVertexAttribPointer(2, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, NULL);
		glEnableVertexAttribArray (2);

		delete[] normals;
	}
	

	if(mesh->HasFaces()) {
		unsigned int *indices = new unsigned int[mesh->mNumFaces * 3];
		for(int i = 0; i < mesh->mNumFaces; ++i) {
			indices[i * 3] = mesh->mFaces[i].mIndices[0];
			indices[i * 3 + 1] = mesh->mFaces[i].mIndices[1];
			indices[i * 3 + 2] = mesh->mFaces[i].mIndices[2];
		}

		glGenBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[INDEX_BUFFER]);
		glBindBuffer(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, vbo[INDEX_BUFFER]);
		glBufferData(GL_ELEMENT_ARRAY_BUFFER, 3 * mesh->mNumFaces * sizeof(GLuint), indices, GL_STATIC_DRAW);

		glVertexAttribPointer(3, 3, GL_FLOAT, GL_FALSE, 0, NULL);
		glEnableVertexAttribArray (3);

		delete[] indices;
	}
	

	glBindBuffer(GL_ARRAY_BUFFER, 0);
	glBindVertexArray(0);
}

/**
*	Deletes the allocated OpenGL buffers
**/
Mesh::MeshEntry::~MeshEntry() {
	if(vbo[VERTEX_BUFFER]) {
		glDeleteBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[VERTEX_BUFFER]);
	}

	if(vbo[TEXCOORD_BUFFER]) {
		glDeleteBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[TEXCOORD_BUFFER]);
	}

	if(vbo[NORMAL_BUFFER]) {
		glDeleteBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[NORMAL_BUFFER]);
	}

	if(vbo[INDEX_BUFFER]) {
		glDeleteBuffers(1, &amp;vbo[INDEX_BUFFER]);
	}

	glDeleteVertexArrays(1, &amp;vao);
}

/**
*	Renders this MeshEntry
**/
void Mesh::MeshEntry::render() {
	glBindVertexArray(vao);
	glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLES, elementCount, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, NULL);
	glBindVertexArray(0);
}

/**
*	Mesh constructor, loads the specified filename if supported by Assimp
**/
Mesh::Mesh(const char *filename)
{
	Assimp::Importer importer;
	const aiScene *scene = importer.ReadFile(filename, NULL);
	if(!scene) {
		printf("Unable to laod mesh: %s\n", importer.GetErrorString());
	}

	for(int i = 0; i < scene->mNumMeshes; ++i) {
		meshEntries.push_back(new Mesh::MeshEntry(scene->mMeshes[i]));
	}
}

/**
*	Clears all loaded MeshEntries
**/
Mesh::~Mesh(void)
{
	for(int i = 0; i < meshEntries.size(); ++i) {
		delete meshEntries.at(i);
	}
	meshEntries.clear();
}

/**
*	Renders all loaded MeshEntries
**/
void Mesh::render() {
	for(int i = 0; i < meshEntries.size(); ++i) { meshEntries.at(i)->render();
	}
}