Nokia has officially agreed to co-sponsor both the MOBIlearn prject and the MLEARN 2004 Conference.

In the framework of the MLEARN 2004 Conference, ENEA, the Italian National Research Agency, organises MLEM 2004, the first international Workshop on M-learning for Emergency Management.
The workshop is aimed at the identification of the specific interests and achievements in learning during management and operation in the different phases of the life cycles of health, territorial or industrial Emergency-Management.
For further information, please visit the following web site: http://www.mobilearn.org/mlem2004/

MOBIlearn, together with m-Learning, another mobile learning project supported by the European Commission, organise the MLEARN 2004 Conference in Rome, Italy.
The conference will bring together people who are interested in developing opportunities, systems and contents for learning with mobile and wireless devices and networks.
The conference organising committee invites you to attend this conference, which is being held at the Odescalchi Castle on the Bracciano's Lake in Rome, Italy on July 5-6 2004.
For further information, please visit the official web site of the conference: http://www.mobilearn.org/mlearn2004/

Read the article "The IT factor in mobile services".
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The National Gallery Collection on Picture Messaging Phones: A World First

Clear link established with ELENA project.

Building interoperability among educational systems is an issue relevant to many of us. Allow us to inform you that a group of people, which started in the context of the Universal consortium (http://www.ist-universal.org), has expanded to a much wider initiative and is now carried forward by the Elena project (http://www.elena-project.org/). This group has recently reached a first milestone of its work agenda. As you can see from our web site (http://nm.wu-wien.ac.at/e-learning/interoperability/), throughout the last months a peer-to-peer (P2P) network based on Edutella (http://edutella.jxta.org/), which connects two instances of the Universal Brokerage Platform (the EducaNext.org portal, and UBP Experimental) as well as ULI, a learning environment for IS education, has been established.

In addition, a WSDL/SOAP interface has been implemented connecting IMC's learning management system Clix and the UBP. AREL, another learning management system, and the learning environment ITeachYou will follow soon. This interface allows users of an LMS to announce courses at the broker, which subsequently become available in the Edutella network. Other use cases specified in the Learning Management Network Specification are currently implemented.

If you would like to test our network, you will find guidelines in the Artefacts and Service Network Documentation available at our web site - among many other resources. We would appreciate any feedback and contributions on our specifications and prototypes. If you have related resources that you would like to see referenced by this web site, please let us know as well.

The Elena consortium is also maintaining an e-mailing list, focusing on research topics such as interoperability of repositories for learning, modelling of learning services, brokerage of learning resources, and controlling training investments. If you want to receive further e-mails on this subject, please subscribe to this list under: http://www.im-c.de/elena/contact_mailing_list.htm (This is a very low-traffic list, since it is a one-way list for announcements from the Elena consortium only. No other postings will be permitted.) Please do not hesitate to sent this information to anyone who might be interested.

Best regards,

Barbara Kieslinger
Project Manager ELENA
http://www.elena-project.org/

The University of Birmingham is running a Java 2 MicroEdition training
course (Java for mobile devices) at a special price for Mobilearn SIG
members of £650 for the 3 day course. This represents a discount of £350 on the full price, and is only available to people involved with the Mobilearn SIG.
All equipment and materials are provided, and the course is a
mixture of lecture-based, demonstration-based and laboratory-based sessions.
The course will be held in Birmingham for three days after the MLearn conference (21-23 May): as this is short notice, if you are interested in attending then, please email Dr. Russell Beale back asap. If you are interested in the course, but not then, please also email with the number of people who are interested, and any preferred times.

The results will be published in the Public results section of the present web site.