ANGEL Learning Announces 2008 ANGEL User Conference

For Immediate Release - Jan. 29, 2008

Indianapolis, Ind. – January 29, 2008 – ANGEL® Learning, recognized innovator of enterprise elearning software and services, today announced that the sixth annual ANGEL User Conference will be held in Cincinnati, Ohio, May 19 – 21, 2008. More than 600 ANGEL community members are expected to join the ANGEL team at the conference for three days of sharing, learning, networking and fun.

ANGEL User Sessions
Conference sessions delivered by ANGEL community members are the centerpiece of the conference. Sessions sharing successful strategies for impacting teaching and learning with the ANGEL Learning Management Suite (LMS) and ANGEL ePortfolio presented by educators who use ANGEL target the needs of:

• Instructional designers, system administrators and IT personnel who implement and support ANGEL.
• Higher education and K12 faculty who use ANGEL to augment instruction and deliver virtual classes.
• New ANGEL community members who are managing their institution’s migrations to ANGEL.

New for 2008 is an executive leadership and program management track. These informative sessions will cover overall institutional needs and requirements.

ANGEL Team Sessions
ANGEL team sessions are another conference highlight. Beyond sharing ANGEL Learning’s vision for learning management system innovation in conference opening sessions, ANGEL team presentations invite community input into product development. ANGEL Learning’s commitment to open communication with the ANGEL community is an ANGEL Learning foundation that continues to draw new clients to the ANGEL community.

ANGEL Partner Participation
The conference will also feature a trade show of ANGEL’s strategic and business partners. Partner exhibits provide participants the opportunity to discover new ways to extend and complement their ANGEL implementations.

Networking Opportunities
Who you meet can be just as informative as the sessions you attend. Scheduled networking opportunities include:

• Pre-conference Regional User Group meetings organized by geographic region to develop strategies for community members to stay connected beyond the conference.
• A kick-off reception featuring ANGEL partners who offer products that complement the ANGEL LMS.
• The annual ANGEL IMPACT Awards ceremony to recognize exemplary ANGEL courses and programs and foster innovation and collaboration to further enrich the ANGEL community.
• A gathering on ANGEL Learning Isle in Second Life, providing community members’ avatars the opportunity to meet and Second Life newbies a chance to tour the island.
• Poster sessions scheduled to encourage discussions about how one institution implemented a solution and others can adapt successful practices to their needs.  
• Focus groups and usability studies of ANGEL customers giving feedback into future ANGEL development.

ANGEL Products Training
To provide conference attendees added value, ANGEL’s Learning Solutions team is offering hands-on ANGEL training sessions on Monday, May 19 before the conference kick-off reception. Classes offered include: Advanced Programming Topics and Techniques; Using Agents, Tokens and Environment Variables; Using Assessments and Question Banks; Using ANGEL 7.3 Discussion Forums; Instructor Topics; Using Repositories, Master Courses and Content Templates; Programming Topics and Techniques; SQL Fundamentals; and, SQL Topics and Techniques.

The conference will be hosted in the Cincinnati convention center, the Duke Energy Center. The ANGEL IMPACT Awards ceremony will be held at Great American Ball Park, home of baseball’s first professional franchise and an inspiration for the conference theme: The ANGEL Learning Triple Play: Simple. Powerful. Open.

For additional information about the 2008 ANGEL User Conference, visit http://www.angellearning.com/auc  or email AUC2008@angellearning.com.  The call for presentation proposals and IMPACT Award nominations is now open. Registration opens February 1.

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. Having emerged from the academy ourselves, our core values reflect those of our customers well. ANGEL world headquarters are in Indianapolis, Indiana. To learn more about the ANGEL difference, visit us at www.angellearning.com.

Media Contact:
Nancy Schmutzler
(317) 333-7332
nancys@angellearning.com