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September 02, 2005, 04:23 PM ET
Online Courses Free for Storm Victims
A group of universities is working to put together a collection of 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 and the Sloan Consortium, and it is supported by a grant from the Alfred W. Sloan Foundation, according to Burks Oakley II, director of the University of Illinois Online. About 40 colleges have expressed interest in helping with the effort.
The program, called the Sloan Semester, will begin in October and will be held in an accelerated 8-week format. Leaders of the effort hope students will be able to transfer the credits to their previous institution when those colleges resume operations. "This is a bridge that will get them from here back to their home institution when their home institution is ready to take them back, so that they don’t lose this semester," said Mr. Oakley in an interview late Friday.
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