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Our Mission:

The purpose of the Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C) is to help learning organizations continually improve quality, scale, and breadth of their online programs, according to their own distinctive missions, so that education will become a part of everyday life, accessible and affordable for anyone, anywhere, at any time, in a wide variety of disciplines.

Call for Papers now open!

The 14th Annual Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning

We invite you to submit a proposal for the 14th Sloan-C International Conference on Online Learning: "The Power of Online Learning: Improving Learning in a Networked World."

Deadline extended - proposals must be submitted by April 30, 2008. Click here for more information.

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!

In recognition of the Annual Sloan-C Blended Workshop, we will pay shipping for all orders of Blended Learning: Research Perspectives between April 6-8* on top of all other discounts (including 20% premium member discounts)! Click here for more details.

Upcoming Sloan-C Events

Sloan-C International Symposium on Emerging Technology Applications for Online Learning May 7-9, 2008.
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Full 2008 Workshop Schedule

Latest Survey Report

Online Nation: Five Years of Growth in Online Learning. Nearly 3.5 million students were taking at least one online course representing nearly twenty percent of all U.S. higher education students. More...

Created with funding from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C encourages the collaborative sharing of knowledge and effective practices to improve online education in learning effectiveness, access, affordability for learners and providers, and student and faculty satisfaction. Find out more…

What We Do:

Sloan-C maintains a catalog of degree and certificate programs offered by a wide range of regionally accredited member institutions, consortia, and industry partners; provides speakers and consultants to help institutions learn about online methodologies; hosts conferences and workshops to help implement and improve online programs; publishes the Sloan-C View, the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks (JALN), and annual volumes of applied research studies; and conducts research, annual surveys on online learning and forums to inform academic, government and private sector audiences. Sloan-C also offers an awards program and an effective practices database and wiki for members to share the lessons they have learned.

Academic Continuity – New Website:

Visit Sloan-C’s academic continuity website and view a report on a recent workshop focused on the issue of academic continuity and emergency management.

Join Sloan-C:

Sloan-C provides two levels of membership; the Sloan-C Free Membership provides access to web-based resources along with discounts on workshops and publications. The Sloan-C Premium Membership provides even greater access to the newest thinking in online learning.

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