Displaced Students Receive Offer of Online Courses

A group of universities in several states is assembling 400 online courses that will be offered free to students whose educations have been disrupted by Hurricane Katrina.

The effort is being coordinated by the Southern Regional Education Board, which has 16 member states, and the Sloan Consortium, an organization that promotes standards for online learning. The effort is supported by a $1.1-million grant from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation.

The program, called the Sloan

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