3. Learning Environments

Course Text and ANGEL

Registered students in the online Penn State courses that use this text need to navigate between several environments in the World Wide Web. These include:

• This text, Nature of Geographic Information. The text consists of nine chapters, each including about twenty to forty pages of text, graphics, and activities. Activities prompt readers to explore selected Web sites, to download data and/or software, or other adventures. Registered students are also prompted to navigate to ANGEL to take practice quizzes and graded quizzes.
• ANGEL (http://angel.psu.edu), Penn State's enterprise course management system. In ANGEL, registered students consult course calendars, communicate with instructors and fellow students, receive instructions for project assignments, submit project reports, receive individual project critiques from instructors, take online quizzes and a final exam, and check assignments scores and course grades.

Note that a link to ANGEL appears at left in the Resources menu of the course text. In ANGEL, registered students will find links back to the text from corresponding Chapter folders under the Lessons tab.

The diagram below illustrates the relationship between the course text and ANGEL.