M-Learning and M-Commerce in Pervasive Environments

During the past decade, Mobile Learning (m-learning) and Pervasive Learning (p-learning) are attracting increasing worldwide, due to a number of technical and societal reasons. The emergence of the knowledge society poses new requirements for education and training: the knowledge-based economy requires a flexible, well-trained workforce; and the citizens of the information society need to be continuously (re)trained in order to remain competitive within this workforce, and to fully exploit the knowledge society for their personal development.