The Sloan Consortium is an institutional and professional leadership organization in the US dedicated to integrating online education into the mainstream of higher education, helping institutions and individual educators improve the quality, scale, and breadth of online education. Membership in the Sloan Consortium provides knowledge, practice, community, and direction for educators. Originally funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Sloan-C is now a non-profit, member sustained organization. Sloan-C works to lead higher education in meeting social needs for affordable access, quality innovations, and teaching and learning excellence.