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Sensors 2011, 11, 7835-7850; doi:10.3390/s110807835 OPEN ACCESS sensors ISSN 1424-8220 /journal/sensors Communication Smart Learning Services Based on Smart Cloud Computing Svetlana Kim, Su-Mi Song and Yong-Ik Yoon * Department of Multimedia Science, Sookmyung Women’s University, Chungpa-Dong 2-Ga, Yongsan-Gu 140-742, Seoul, Korea; E-Mails: xatyna@sm.ac.kr (S.K.); songsm0328@ (S.-M.S.) * Author to whom correspondence should be addressed; E-Mail: yiyoon@sm.ac.kr; Tel.: +82-10-5091-0388. Received: 19 July 2011; in revised form: 1 August 2011 / Accepted: 5 August 2011 / Published: 9 August 2011 Abstract: Context-aware technologies can make e-learning services smarter and more efficient since context-aware services are based on the user’s behavior. To add those technologies into existing e-learning services, a service architecture model is needed to transform the existing e-learning environment, which is situation-aware, into the environment that understands context as well. The context-awareness in e-learning may include the awareness of user profile and terminal context. In this paper, we propose a new notion of service that provides context-awareness to smart learning content in a cloud computing environment. We suggest the elastic four smarts (E4S)—smart pull, smart prospect, smart content, and smart push—concept to the cloud services so smart learning