Online Learning Is Growing at Central Ohio Technical College
For Immediate Release - Aug. 5, 2008
Indianapolis, Ind. – Aug. 5, 2008 – ANGEL® Learning, recognized innovator of enterprise course management software and services, today announced that Central Ohio Technical College (COTC) has adopted the ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS), which it will implement within the next year to deliver its growing list of online classes (currently at sixty) and to enrich face-to-face courses with internet-based capabilities and web 2.0 tools.
As online classes and using the internet to enrich traditional teaching and learning become the standard, COTC is staying ahead of the curve. The college has been using a course management system for online learning the last five years. The switch to the ANGEL LMS will help the college move forward with additional online offerings and add more online capabilities to its traditional classes.
In the Winter Quarter 2009, the classes in COTC’s thirty-one associate degree and certificate programs will use ANGEL in some way. “ANGEL will provide students a consistent place to go for class and school materials,” said Corri Edwards, instructional designer at COTC. “The course syllabus, student grades, student’s end-of-quarter assessments of their classes will all be online in ANGEL.” Students will also have the opportunity to use web 2.0 wikis and blogs and many other online tools in their COTC classes as their instructors choose to implement them.
“Central Ohio Technical College is addressing the challenge of making education available to all with positive action,” said Christopher Clapp, president and CEO, ANGEL Learning. “We commend COTC for their dedication to continuous improvement and are pleased to welcome the college to the quickly growing ANGEL community.”
Central Ohio Technical College is a fully-accredited, two-year public college dedicated to providing, high quality, accessible programs of technical education in response to current and emerging employment needs COTC offers a wide range of courses and programs in Arts, Sciences and Integrated Studies; Engineering, Industrial and Business Technologies; Health and Human Services; and Public Safety. The college operates locations in Newark, Coshocton, Knox and Pataskala. Within six months of graduation, 97% of COTC graduates are employed and 84% are working in their field. In a recent survey, 95% of area employers expressed that they were satisfied or very satisfied with COTC graduates’ education.
About ANGEL Learning
ANGEL Learning, Inc. develops and markets enterprise elearning 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. ANGEL LMS won the Software & Information Industry Association CODiE award for Best Postsecondary Course Management Solution in both 2006 and 2007 and is the only product to win the award two years in a row. Educators ranked ANGEL first in customer satisfaction in the IMS GLC Learn-Sat awards. ANGEL world headquarters are in Indianapolis, Indiana. To learn more about the ANGEL difference, visit us at www.angellearning.com.
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