Potentials and Challenges of Context-Awareness for Learning Solutions
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Current e-learning systems fail to take into account the situation of the learner appropriately although there is a big potential for improving those systems. This paper tries to summarize the potentials and highlight the key challenges of context-aware learning systems. It also presents some steps towards mastering the challenges.
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