ANGEL Learning Announces Alliance with Horizon Wimba at ANGEL User Conference in Louisville, Kentucky
Alliance enables easy access to Horizon Wimba’s collaborative applications from within ANGEL.
For Immediate Release - June 6, 2006
Indianapolis, Ind. – June 6, 2006 – ANGEL® Learning, recognized innovator of enterprise e-learning software and services, announced its alliance with Horizon Wimba, provider of collaborative software applications for online education, before an receptive audience of ANGEL users today at its annual user conference in Louisville, Kentucky. The alliance integrates ANGEL’s complete suite of simple yet powerful online teaching and learning tools with Horizon Wimba’s Live Classroom providing ANGEL instructors with an easy and efficient means of adding a human, personal touch to their online courses because they’ll never have to leave the ANGEL environment to create, configure, or use Horizon Wimba’s Live Classroom or Wimba Voice Tools.
“Horizon Wimba has distinguished itself with its powerful collaboration software. We are very pleased this alliance enables us to offer Horizon Wimba’s superior and easy-to-use audio, video, and recording technologies in the ANGEL interface,” said Christopher Clapp, president and CEO, ANGEL Learning. “The alliance was enthusiastically welcomed by ANGEL User Conference attendees and furthers ANGEL Learning’s focus on providing a simple-to-use yet powerful instructional experience.”
The alliance ANGEL – Horizon Wimba alliance responds to the needs of ANGEL’s rapidly growing customer base by enabling ANGEL users to access collaborative products for online education more easily. ANGEL’s open, flexible architecture enables access to Horizon Wimba’s collaborative applications from within ANGEL. Faculty can manage and configure Horizon Wimba tools inside the ANGEL environment as well.
“We’re enormously proud that we’ve answered the call of countless ANGEL customers who have long wanted an easy means of adding collaborative tools to their online courses,” said Tommaso Trionfi, CEO, Horizon Wimba. “It remains our ambition to make our technology easy to use and access for educators throughout the world, and our integration with ANGEL brings us one step closer to achieving this goal.”
About ANGEL Learning
ANGEL Learning, Inc. develops and markets enterprise e-learning software. Our flagship products are the ANGEL Learning Management Suite and the ANGEL ePortfolio system. Our products have been honed by use – with millions of students and instructors served from K to corporate. We enjoy a reputation for creating products with exceptional ease of use, excellent vision into learner progress, and for keeping our commitments. Having emerged from the academy ourselves, our core values reflect those of our customers well. ANGEL world headquarters is in Indianapolis, Indiana. To learn more about simply powerful ANGEL LMS, visit us at www.angellearning.com
About Horizon Wimba
Horizon Wimba develops collaborative software applications addressing the diverse needs of the emerging online education market. Its software enables institutions to take advantage of the multitude of advances in the internet and internet-based technologies while also enhancing their course management systems. The Company's virtual classroom solution enables educators to teach and meet live online, its vocal collaboration technologies add oral content directly into course content, webpages and assessments, its content authoring software allows users to quickly and easily convert Microsoft Word? documents into webpages, and its test-generation and homework management tools allow faculty to create test, quiz, and exam questions. With simplicity and power, Horizon Wimba adds new dimensions to online, accessible education, enriching the learning experience for both students and instructors.
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