Crown College Minnesota Adopts ANGEL LMS to Support Online Learning
For Immediate Release - Sept. 18, 2008
Indianapolis, Ind. – September 18, 2008 – ANGEL® Learning, a leading provider of enterprise eLearning software and services, today announced that Crown College in St. Bonifacius, Minnesota has adopted the ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS). The college will implement ANGEL to support its online learning program. With its ANGEL adoption, Crown is moving from the LMS it previously licensed to the ANGEL LMS.
“Cost was one of the driving factors in our decision to investigate LMS alternatives,” said Matt Newby, director of Distributive Learning at Crown College. “Our previous provider charged by the number of students in the class. As class enrollments grew, the cost to license the system increased. Rising costs made researching alternative systems the responsible option.”
Crown College personnel conducted in-depth research into LMS alternatives over an eight-month period. They reviewed seven vendors’ responses to their Request For Information and participated in vendor product demonstrations. According to Newby, “In the final evaluation, ANGEL was the best fit for us.”
Reasons Newby identifies for Crown College’s ANGEL selection include ANGEL’s comprehensive feature set and the flexibility of the ANGEL software and ANGEL Learning itself. “ANGEL has provided excellent implementation support and given us ongoing support options that work best for us,” said Newby. “We were also able to select a hosting option that fits our needs. Other advantages include an open software architecture that allows for more flexible troubleshooting, a copy of the software for creation of a test environment, and greater integration ability with our Student Information System. Each of these factors provides the college a better value.”
“Providing ANGEL customers a feature-rich system and the flexibility to implement the ANGEL LMS to best meet institution-specific needs at a fair price is central to the ANGEL Learning product development and business philosophies,” said Christopher Clapp, ANGEL Learning president CEO. “ANGEL Learning welcomes Crown College to the ANGEL community, and we look forward to working with them as their programs grow.”
Crown College offers nearly 40 bachelor degrees in areas such as pastoral leadership, nursing, psychology, and communication. The Crown experience means more than a degree - it involves shaping a life so the talents, skills, and passions a student has are deepened and used to impact the world in life changing ways. Classes are available through traditional day programs or online and evening/weekend classes, while degree-completion programs and graduate degrees are also available. In August 2008, The Princeton Review listed Crown on the "The Best of the Midwest" college rankings for the second year in a row.
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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