From news reports
Fourteen of North America's largest research universities -- including Penn State -- plan to work together to market their distance-education efforts through a central Web directory listing all their online programs. The idea is to create a gateway for students to find distance-education courses -- a central guide to what larger universities are offering.
The new directory, which will be coordinated by the University of Washington and which hasn't yet been formally announced, will include mainly distance-education offerings by institutions in the "Research University I" division of the Carnegie Classification. Both public and private universities are participating in the effort. Also among the participants is a Canadian institution, the University of British Columbia.
The consortium is reportedly open to any Research I university, but the 14 institutions that have signed on so far are those that have been most active in distance education. Universities will pay nothing to participate.
Universities reported to be participating in the new online directory are:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology; New York University; Penn State; Stanford University; University of British Columbia; University of California at Berkeley; University of California at Los Angeles; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; University of Minnesota, Twin Cities; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; University of Pennsylvania;University of Texas at Austin; University of Washington; University of Wisconsin at Madison