Context in Mobile learning: the point of view of the learners

Abstract

Context-awareness is becoming a crucial component in the mobile learning systems due to the dynamic changing of the Mobile learning environment, a Context-aware mobile learning system senses mobile environment and reacts to changing context during the learning process. Some efforts have been made in the area of Context-aware Mobile learning systems in order to propose a user model, most of them are focusing on the technological context such as the network performances, mobile devices capabilities, others are focusing on the learners’ style and preferences, and no one tried to understand the learners’ needs. However, no one tried to study the Learning context from the point of view of the learners. For this purpose, we created a questionnaire, in which we tried to understand which learning contexts are important to the learners in the learning process, and we use it to understand their needs and preferences, to inform the design of a new Context aware Mobile Learning Approach.