"The purpose of this book is to provide an analytical and theoretical background to the field of education and training courses on wireless devices: (PDAs) Personal Digital Assistants, palmtops and mobile telephones. The book... traces an evolution from distance learning to electronic learning to m-learning (mobile learning)." The focus is on m- learning: chapter 4 provides an overview of activity in the field of mobile learning today and the following chapters descibe the devices and their use: screenphones, smartphones, PDAs, WAP telephones. Chapter 9 reports examples of student use of mobile learning in some countries, and the last chapter looks into the future of mobile learning. (DIPF/Bi.).