Improved Online Learning Experience Key to College of Southern Nevada Decision to Adopt the ANGEL Learning Management Suite
For Immediate Release - Nov. 24, 2008
Indianapolis, Ind. – November 24, 2008 – ANGEL Learning, a leading provider of enterprise eLearning software and services, today announced that the College of Southern Nevada (CSN), one of the largest colleges in the U.S. enrolling more than 41,000 students, has adopted the ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS) to support its extensive online course offerings. CSN began evaluating alternatives to the course management system (CMS) it originally licensed in the spring of 2008 and made the decision to adopt ANGEL in the fall. In January 2009, CSN‘s 865 sections of online enrollment will be delivered using the ANGEL LMS.
“Our system for delivering online learning caused our faculty, students, and help desk problems,” reported Terry Norris, director of eLearning, College of Southern Nevada. “We experienced the same issues for two years, but the provider did not take action to correct the problems, so we assembled an LMS selection committee conducted a thorough evaluation of available systems and moved quickly to select a new system and get it in place.”
The experience students will have with the college’s new LMS was an important consideration in CSN’s evaluation of LMS alternatives. The college’s LMS selection committee included faculty and department representatives as well as the student government president. “Students are heaviest users of the system,” said Norris. “We wanted to be sure students would be comfortable using the LMS we chose.”
In the final analysis, the ease of use of the ANGEL system that won CSN faculty approval also won the student vote. “The CSN student government president compared ANGEL navigation with Facebook, a site that is already part of many students’ experience,” said Norris. “He also appreciated that the ability to open ANGEL in his handheld makes learning mobile.”
With its ANGEL adoption, CSN is looking forward to an improved user experience that will impact student retention. “Not having the issues associated with our previous system will decrease frustration across the board,” Norris concluded. “Using ANGEL will make taking a CSN online class much easier.”
“Creating a superior teaching and learning experience is a foundation of both the ANGEL LMS and ANGEL Learning. We very purposefully develop the ANGEL LMS to be easy to use, and we back our products with support and services created to ensure all ANGEL users have an excellent experience,” said Christopher Clapp, ANGEL Learning president and CEO. “ANGEL Learning welcomes the College of Southern Nevada to the ANGEL community. We look forward to partnering with CSN to provide a first-rate online learning experience for both faculty and students.”
Nevada’s largest institution of higher education, the College of Southern Nevada serves two-thirds of Nevada’s population from three main campuses and eleven academic learning centers spread throughout four counties. CSN provides more than 200 associate degrees and certificate programs and offers more than 3,000 courses each semester. Most CSN students work at least part time. One in every four CSN students takes a course online. The college’s online enrollment is equivalent to 4,000 full-time students each semester. CSN students receive an annual rate of return of 19.5 percent on their educational investment. For every dollar invested in education, students receive a cumulative return of $5.50. For every dollar taxpayers invest in CSN they receive a cumulative return of $3.60.
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. The 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. ANGEL Learning won the 2008 Parature Legend Makers Award for “customer service and support excellence.” 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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