Context-sensitive mobile learning systems using the method for engineering learning systems MISA

Two major challenges are faced when designing context-sensitive mobile learning systems: i) considering contextual components in the instructional design and ii) implementing the system response to those changing components in order to enhance the learner's learning experience without altering pedagogical objectives. The complication stems from poor understanding of what constitutes context and how it should be presented but also from its unpredictability and richness making it almost impossible to consider all its elements upstream the design process. We address these issues in the present paper by defining and categorizing the contextual information into semantic models to be included in the mobile learning system design process obtained using the method for Engineering Learning Systems MISA. We then determine the main technical and instructional functionalities to be implemented by such systems