Common sense-based applications to advance personalized learning

Learning process varies according to learners´ profiles and cultural contexts in which they are inserted. In order to provide effective learning, educators should contextualize the learning process to their learners´ needs from the planning of learning activities, i.e. a group of tasks with educational purpose, to the elaboration of learning content that they will use. This is a way to provide personalized learning to different groups of learners, one of the grand challenges for engineering research in the 21^st century. This paper proposes the use of common sense knowledge for developing computer applications to support educators in contextualizing the learning process to their learners´ reality by the analysis of common sense knowledge collected from people with the same profile of the learners. It presents the solutions of OMCS-Br for collecting and using common sense knowledge into computer applications and three educational applications developed for the purpose of helping educators with personalized learning.