Ran across this blog post from Powerset concerning the usage of wikipedia by students in higher education. Once you get beyond the plug for Powerset, some rather interesting research results are presented.

This Article originally appeared in the Chronicle of Higher Education on June 16, 2006.
While we have been busy attending conferences, workshops, and seminars on every possible aspect of scholarly communication, information technology, digital libraries, and e-publishing, students have been quietly revolutionizing the discovery and use of information. Their behavior, undertaken without consultation or attendance at formal academic events, urgently forces those of us in scholarly publishing to confront some fundamental questions about our organizations, jobs, and assumptions about our work.