What is an ANGEL?

The ANGEL (Authenticated Networked Guided Environment for Learning) project is funded under the JISC DNER 05/99 call. LITC’s involvement in the project includes responsibility for the initial formative evaluation, continuing dissemination and monitoring activities, and the summative evaluation of the system. This articled iscusses the formative evaluation process undertaken for the project by LITC between January and March 2001. The results of this process show that although users have a clear idea of the experience they wish to have within a learning environment, there are many concerns and problems that prevent institutions achieving this experience. Despite the fact that users consistently cite library resources as essential for online learning, they have no clear idea of how learning environments can be developed to improve delivery of resources. The full report of the evaluation can now be found on the ANGEL web site, together with the interview questions and results.