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Abstract: Learning process varies according to learners' profiles and cultural contexts in which they are inserted. In order to provide effective learning, educators should contextualize the learning process to their learners' needs from the planning of learning activities, i.e. a group of tasks with educational purpose, to the elaboration of learning content that they will use. This is a way to provide personalized learning to different groups of learners, one of the grand challenges for engineering research in the 21st century. This paper proposes the use of common sense knowledge for developing computer applications to support educators in contextualizing the learning process to their learners' reality by the analysis of common sense knowledge collected from people with the same profile of the learners. It presents the solutions of OMCS-Br for collecting and using common sense knowledge into computer applications and three educational applications developed for the purpose of helping educators with personalized learning.