A framework of knowledge personalization in mobile learning

Abstract

Mobile devices usage has grown significantly in the last decade. With the advent of mobile technology, mobile devices have transformed people lifestyle including learning style. Mobile learning uses mobile technologies to carry out learning process. Typically, mobile learning involved individual learning with less or without teacher’s supervision and guidance. This means that the learners need to manage their knowledge on their own. However, not all learners have similar learning ability and behaviour. The ways they manage their knowledge are different. Hence, offering knowledge personalization to learners is needed to ease the knowledge management in mobile learning context of the learners. Motivated by the lack of research on knowledge personalisation in mobile learning domain, this paper proposes a framework of the knowledge personalization in mobile learning. The framework was developed based on literature analysis conducted on existing personalization research in e-learning domain or other similar domain. The resulted framework consists of three main elements, namely context, content, and learner. This framework can be used as guidance by mobile application developer to produce application that is tailored to learners’ needs.