Westel Mobile Telecommunications (Hungary) and the Institute for Philosophical Research of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences are conducting an interdisciplinary research program on the topic communications in the 21st century. Beginning with autumn 2002, the reasearch will be increasingly directed at the issue of "m-learning".

M-learning is learning as it arises in the course of person-to-person mobile communication. Characteristically, it aims at location-dependent and situation-dependent knowledge. Such knowledge offers solutions to here-and-now problems, but it can also take on other, more systematic forms. Mobile communication is enhanced everyday communication; and just as our everyday conversation is indifferent towards disciplinary boundaries, so, too, is m-learning. Situation-dependent knowledge, the knowledge at which m-learning aims, by its nature transcends disciplines; its organizing principles arise from practical tasks; its contents are multisensorial; its elements are linked to each other not just by texts, but also by diagrams, pictures, and maps. 

 
In the framework of the "m-learning" research  program six projects are about to be launched:

- The system of science in the 21st century. A hypermedia database. Literature

- Situating Medical Knowledge: The Promise of Mobile Access. Literature

- Universities and the mobile information society. 

- Mobiltudor®. New communication technologies and childhood learning. 

- How to say it in English? Wie sagt man es auf deutsch? 

- Human geography. Localities, regions, people.
 

Interesting m-learning links:

http://specials.ft.com/elearning/FT3YOQOM2ZC.html: "Mobile lessons: knowledge on the move" – Financial Times, March 2002

http://www.learningcircuits.org/2001/feb2001/@work.html: site of  Learning Circuits

http://www.empoweringtechnologies.net/mobile.htm: site of  Empowering Technologies, Inc.

http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/handler/default.asp: "HandLeR project" – The University of Birmingham Educational Technology Research Group

http://www.eee.bham.ac.uk/handler/publications.asp: "HandLeR Publications"

http://www.pjb.co.uk/: site of  pjb Associates

http://www.ultralab.ac.uk/projects/m-learning/: "m-learning" – European Commission Education Area of the Information Society (IST) Programme