Personalization for Location-Based E-Learning

Personalization has proven to be of significant value to educational systems, which provide learning contents tailored to the knowledge, interests and other characteristics of the learners. Location-based E-Learning raises new opportunities and challenges in this field, as learning activities become mobile and location-aware. Integration of personalization and location-awareness even context-awareness will greatly improve the effectiveness of E-Learning. In this paper, we introduce the process of personalization for location-based E-Learning, discuss the personalization techniques regarding learning context modeling, content organization and selection, recommendations and ranking as well as personalized multimedia presentation. A prototypical application is presented at the end of the paper.