Universities Create On-Line Education 'Portal'The Distance-Education Consortium

Fourteen of North America's largest research universities plan to work together to market their distance-education efforts through a central directory on the World-Wide Web listing all of their on-line programs.

The effort, called R1.edu, is the latest attempt to create a high-profile "portal" for distance-education courses.

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