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Published in Spectrum > Mobile Learning, Libraries, And Technologies, March 12, 2009. "MLE-Moodle is an out-of-the-box mobile Learning (mLearning) system, designed for mobile phones." With MCNC in particular, we've discussed how it might be helpful to be able to engage students/faculty/administrators in Polilogue via mobile phone in addition to computer.

By Sam Dillon in New York Times, March 9, 2010. An international comparison of K-12 education systems and their relative success from Andreas Schleicher, a senior education official at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. Schleicher offered testimony before the Senate education committee.

Guy Raz interviews Anya Kamentz (reporter and author) on All Things Considered (NPR), March 13, 2010. According to this story, "about 10 percent of students in America are now enrolled at these online universities." Assume that they mean for-profit online universities, since that is the topic of the report.

From Joshua Kim's Blog U, Technology and Learning blog, part of Inside Higher Ed. In this post, Kim lists 10 multimedia competencies that all new college grads should have, cribbed from Mindy McAdams' Reporter's Guide to Multimedia Proficiency.

Press release from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March 18, 2010. "A new study of national college graduation data by the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) reveals that far too many four-year colleges and universities graduate less than half of their Hispanic students."

By Katie Ash in Education Week, March 16, 2010. Coverage of the increasing popularity of mobile learning (m_learning), that is, the use of mobile phones in the classroom. The feature includes links to related stories.

Published in AccreditedOnlineColleges.org on March 16, 2010. For the Twitterers among us, some feeds worth review.

From edna.edu.au, "Australia's free online resource for educators." There are several interesting topics available here (each with its own RSS feed), and while many articles pertain to Australia, not all do. The topics in the left-hand column: Teacher education resources, Curriculum and education studies, and Education technology all appear to be particularly rich.