Research institutions needn't expend valuable resources equipping students with mobile devices for learning, they should integrate students' own phones, PDAs, and netbooks. That's according to Euro-American research published next year in the International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation.

Many students have their own technology for everyday communication, information management and networking. Johan Lundin of the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and colleagues there and at the University of California, San Diego, USA, suggest that educators should explore this for teaching and learning purposes.

The researchers investigated a project to help students and educators use mobile phones and Wikis (user-contributed and edited web pages) sand in higher education. The success of this project suggests that the same approach could be extended widely to the almost universally available technologies used by today's students.

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