Microeconomics students at Bristol University are taking part in an experiment to see whether PalmPilots are better than PCs for online learning.
Fifteen first-year undergraduates will be issued with PalmPilots and mobile phones so they can study on the move. They will dial into a website to download to the PalmPilot information that their fellow students will receive from a BlackBoard virtual learning environment on a PC.
The project is one of six related to widening access in further and higher education with wireless technologies that have received funding from TeachLearn, a service funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee.