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 Volume 6, Issue 12 (December 2019), Pages: 27-40

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 Technical Note

 Title: Context aware adaptive mobile learning framework for bottom of pyramid people (BOP)

 Author(s): T. C. Irugalbandara 1, *, M. S. D. Fernando 2

 Affiliation(s):

 1Department of Computing, Rajarata University of Sri Lanka, Mihintale, Sri Lankaa
 2Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka

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 * Corresponding Author. 

  Corresponding author's ORCID profile: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3062-2233

 Digital Object Identifier: 

 https://doi.org/10.21833/ijaas.2019.12.004

 Abstract:

When the learners are truly interested in learning, they learn faster, participate actively, and they pull knowledge. Unlike school education, adult learning mostly occurs with the initiation of the adult learner, and they then pull the relevant knowledge. Vocational education is the master key that opens the door to the economic and social development of a country and it provides an opportunity for Bottom of Pyramid people (BOP) to acquire a sustainable livelihood. Due to many difficulties and commitments of their lives, BOP people are not engaging in a continuous learning process. Since there are many adaptive mobile learning systems available, there is no proper mechanism to achieve the sustainable livelihood of BOP people through vocational education which is tightly coupled with their lifestyle and motivates them to get in learning activities. The context aware adaptive mobile learning framework is an attempt to push vocational knowledge for Bottom of Pyramid (BOP) people, who are not ready to pull knowledge. In this paper, we present mobile learning content design, concept design, system architecture, Adaptivity components, the system implementation and evaluation of the system This system guides BOP people in their vocations through adaptive content delivery mechanisms using mobile technology together with vocational and motivational factors to educate the user in a transparent and non-resistive manner. Social science based models integrated into systems to carry out adaptive delivery of content based on the end user learning behavior, vocation, social and psychological factors.

 © 2019 The Authors. Published by IASE.

 This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

 Keywords: Vocational education, Motivation, Mobile learning, Bottom of pyramid people

 Article History: Received 17 June 2019, Received in revised form 24 September 2019, Accepted 27 September 2019

 Acknowledgement:

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 Conflict of interest:  The authors declare that they have no conflict of interest.

 Citation:

 Irugalbandara TC and Fernando MSD (2019). Context aware adaptive mobile learning framework for bottom of pyramid people (BOP). International Journal of Advanced and Applied Sciences, 6(12): 27-40

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