Advanced Business Education Ltd
the ABEL eCampus
OnlineGroups.Net provides a comprehensive service that produces
the ABEL eCampus,
an online learning campus for around 1600 students
per year who are doing a post-graduate distance learning
programme provided by
Advanced Business Education Ltd.
The ABEL Programme has an empahisis on developing professional
skills including online collaboration
The February 2005 edition of the Chartered Accountants Journal
contained an article entitled
"Chartered Cyber Course", (Full Text PDF, 111KB)
that describes the eCampus and the benefits that ABEL
and its customers receive from the eCampus.
OnlineGroups.Net has been providing the eCampus for ABEL since 2000.
The eCampus provides Online Groups
where students collaborate on team assignments.
Originally using Yahoo! Groups, the eCampus has been running on
GroupServer since 2003.
It now provides assessment results, photosheets, workshop information
sheets and gathers and reports on feedback as well as static content.
OnlineGroups.Net works with ABEL to constantly improve both the technology and
the design for collaboration. ABEL outsources the day to day management
of the eCampus to GroupSense who work closely with ABEL's staff.
GroupSense is currently integrating the eCampus with ABEL's new Student
Management System eMinerva.