Online grows at community colleges, and so does Angel?

Because of their mission, community colleges are a lot more responsive to changes in the "real world" and accordingly modify their courses and pedagogy. They have also jumped in big time with online learning. Arizona's Rio Salado is, of course, a huge symbol of this, though an outlier of sorts.

Therefore, it was not anything that was that new when I read in the Chronicle that:

Among other results, the survey found that:

• Seventy-four percent of colleges offered at least one “online degree,” meaning at least 70 percent of the course work required for the degree was offered online. That's up 10 percent from last year.
• Sixty-four percent of colleges plan to increase the number of "blended" courses, for which 30 to 79 percent of course content is delivered online, with some face-to-face meetings.
• Completion rates for online work continues to lag behind traditional courses. The retention rate for online courses was 65 percent, compared to 72 percent in face-to-face courses.
• Full-time faculty members continue to teach the majority of distance-education courses. Sixty-four percent of online courses are taught by full-time faculty members, with part-time faculty members handling the rest.
• The top challenge administrators said they faced in running distance-education programs was hiring the support personnel needed for technical assistance and staff training. That has been the No. 1 challenge identified by administrators since the survey's beginning.
• The primary challenge for faculty members was workload, also unchanged in four years. The greatest challenge for students was assessing learning and performance.

BTW, the same report also refers to "Angel":

One noteworthy departure was in the decline in the use of Blackboard and WebCT as learning-management systems. Fifty-nine percent of respondents indicated they use Blackboard or WebCT, down from 77 percent in 2007 (Blackboard took over WebCT in 2006). The biggest beneficiary of this decline seems to be Angel, which grew in usage from just under 10 percent of respondents in 2007 to over 20 percent last year.

Angel?