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Context in Mobile Learning: The Point of View of the Learners Khamssa CHOUCHANE a,b,1 , Almaas ALI b , Juan Carlos AUGUSTO b , Okba KAZAR a a LINFI Laboratory, Department of Computer Science, University of Mohamed Khider Biskra, Algeria b Research Group of Development of Intelligent Environments, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University London, UK 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. Keywords. Mobile Learning, Mobile Devices, Context-awareness, Learning Context. 1. Introduction Advances in wireless networking and mobile broadband Internet access technologies, the maturing of portable mobile devices as well as the rapid development of ubiquitous computing and pervasive computing mean people today are no longer limited to certain environments in their lives or education [1]. Mobile learning can be defined as the use of hand-small and portable wireless devices such as mobile phones, personal digital assistants PDAs, smart phones and smart phones, personal computers and small tablet PCs, to achieve the flexibility and interactivity [2]. Context-awareness has 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. There have been several studies in the literature in the area of Context-aware Mobile learning systems; most of them are focusing on the technological context such as the network performances, mobile devices capabilities. 1 Corresponding Author, Research Group of Development of Intelligent Environments, Department of Computer Science, Middlesex University London UK; E-mail: K.Chouchane@mdx.ac.uk Intelligent Environments 2019 A. Muñoz et al. (Eds.) © 2019 The authors and IOS Press. This article is published online with Open Access by IOS Press and distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC 4.0). doi:10.3233/AISE190053 280