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About Pharabius

About Pharabius

Pharabius, named in the honour of Al Farabi, is the e-academy arm of Unovision Ltd. Pharabius is a portal for delivery of online training. It provides all the management functionalities needed to enrich the learning experience; from the individual's learning plan through to course scheduling and examinations. Though it is perceived that a web based facility should deliver a web based course, this is not a constrain for Pharabius - in fact courses may be managed through Pharabius even if they are lecture or literature based.

Realisation of a course consists of multiple stages; from concept through to instructional design, research and preparation, implementation, scheduling, invitation, attendance, course delivery, courseware materials, examinations, and reporting. Instructional Design is the systematic process of translating general principles of learning and instruction into plans for instructional materials and learning. Only the two stages of implementation and delivery differ in terms of how the student receives the course.

Furthermore, Pharbius can be configured to align with the needs of your company - internal courses you may already have, off-the-shelf solutions you may favour, or new courses to be conceptualised, developed, and delivered to suit your needs - can all be managed by Pharabius.

Origin of the name Pharabius

Origin of the name

Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn al-Farakh al-Farabi (870-950 A.D.), known as Al-Pharabius in the west, he was one of the greatest scientists and philosophers of his time. Farabi was born from parents of Persian descent. After finishing his early school years in Farab and Bukhara, Farabi arrived in Baghdad to pursue higher studies. He made notable contributions to the fields of mathematics, philosophy, medicine and even music - he played and invented a varied number of musical instruments. See Wikipedia for further information

Greatly influenced by Baghdad's Greek heritage in philosophy, especially the writings of Aristotle, he was known as the Second Teacher or the Second Aristotle. He used Artistotle's ideas in his proof of the existence of God and was influenced also by Neoplatonic ideas and Sufi mysticism. Like Plato, he believed it was the philosopher's task to provide guidance to the state. He wrote more than 100 works, notably The Ideas of the Citizens of the Virtuous City.