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SloanSemester.org is a
website dedicated to helping college students
and those hoping to attend college online find the information
they need to make their dreams of a quality higher
education a reality. Feel free to browse our website
for detailed information about online education,
online degrees and online diploma options, or
read any one of dozens of articles about student loans.
Looking for the
Sloan Semester Archives?A unique
event in higher education occurred in
response to Hurricane Katrina (and later
Rita), which struck the U.S. Gulf Coast in
August 2005. Using online learning, colleges
and universities from across the country
responded in record numbers to help students
and institutions impacted by the storms.
Dubbed "Sloan Semester" the initiative
provided free online courses to students
impacted by the storm.
A look back at the Sloan Semester
Initiative...
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) provides a
retrospective
on the Sloan Semester Initiative: information
about how it was established, how it worked, who
participated, and the students who were
served. The site includes links to an
archived version of the Sloan Semester
Catalog, a case study of the project, data
about participants and lessons learned.
The Sloan Consortium hopes the site will
serve as both an opportunity to look
back...and to be thinking ahead to the next
time circumstances demand our community to
respond. We know, from this experience, they
will again.
The Sloan Semester was a vibrant and
vitally important undertaking that required
the immediate attention of a group of
dedicated educators. The Alfred P. Sloan
Foundation, through its sponsorship of the
Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C), financed this
worthwhile initiative that helped Hurricane
Katrina—and Rita—affected
higher education students continue with their
education in an online modality, as their
institutions were forced to temporarily close
down for the Fall 2005 semester. A chain of
educated decisions, along with the
appropriate infrastructure and team of
professionals, successfully moved this
initiative forward in a quick and
unprecedented time frame, "on the fly."
Learn more about the Sloan Semester initiative by
visiting www.sloan-c.org.
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Brief Overview of the Sloan Semester Initiative...
- Sloan-C member institutions created a fully
functional "virtual" institution in 21 days.
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation supported the
initiative with a $1.1 million dollar grant.
- Sloan Semester made more than 1,350 courses
from over 150 institutions in 38 states available
to over 1,750 students at the undergraduate and
graduate levels.
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