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Lebanese Alternative Learning (LAL) is a Lebanese non-profit EdTech NGO that strives to make access to quality education in Lebanon a right not a privilege.

LAL is dedicated to providing all students in Lebanon with a transformative digital learning experience to break the cycle of inequalities in education.

Founders
Nayla Fahed

Co-Founder and CEO

Nayla Zreik Fahed holds a PhD in 18th century French literature. Her interests focus on bilingualism and its implications on learning and teaching. Additionally, Nayla is currently the Chief Executive Officer of LAL.

Nagi Ghorra

Co-Founder and CTO

Nagi Ghorra is an e-learning specialist. His experience ranges from organizing companies’ internal training programs, creating courses,  teaching, to administering e-learning platforms. Additionally, Nagi is currently the Chief Technology Officer of LAL.

Projects
LAL offers both online and offline solutions to deploy e-learning programs for students and it has been working on an initiative to support educators in the abrupt shift to hybrid education.

These projects are:

TABSHOURA Online/Offline Solutions
TABSHOURA is a free to access digital learning platform offering school support programs aligned with the learning outcomes of the Lebanese curriculum in three languages: Arabic, English and French.

LAL also invented an offline solution, tabshoura-in-a-box, a pocket-sized device that works independently of the Internet and the electricity, a key feature in low-resource environments. Tabshoura-in-a-box provides a hotspot where 30 students can connect their devices simultaneously and access TABSHOURA’s digital learning content.

TABSHOURA’s digital learning content is divided into three main section:


 * Tabshoura Kindergarten: skill-based digital programs for Early Childhood Education
 * Tabshoura Elementary: targets the two cycles of Elementary education from grade 1 till grade 6
 * Tabshoura Middle School: targets students from grades 7 to 9 in all subject matters

Furthermore, there is a section dedicated to non-formal education, which includes exciting and important subjects such as the environment, art, etc.

LALMOUDARESS
LALMOUDARESS initiative is a library of resources dedicated to support educators in the shift to hybrid education. It’s also a safe space for educators to share the challenges they have encountered and best practices they have adopted to overcome these challenges.

LAL SOLUTIONS
LAL SOLUTIONS is a division of LAL whose mission is to promote LAL value added experience to other educational based providers. By doing so, it ensures LAL’s financial sustainability, thus reducing its reliance on external grants and funding.

Services offered

LAL SOLUTIONS services are centered around Co-Creation and Capacity Building Workshops.

Co-Creation
Co-Creation   is the process of both developing and deploying a client’s content. This process leads to a transformative and interactive digital learning experience. LAL’s team works hand in hand with our clients to ensure that their requirements and needs are met.

It is important to differentiate between digitization and digitalization since the process of co-creation involves digitalization. Whereas you digitize a document, you digitalize a learning experience.

Capacity Building Workshops
The Capacity Building Workshops enhance education actors’ (educators, facilitators, supporting staff, management teams) self-development and skills, thus impacting the learners’ journey within the fast-changing educational sector.

The training workshops are tailored and customized to the client’s needs by a highly qualified team of experts and are given in an interactive, engaging, and hands-on methodology.

Awards
LAL has been honored with several awards:


 * UN Equals in Tech Award: a network of more than 50 partner companies and organizations working together to bridge the digital gender divide -  2017
 * WISE Accelerator: an ed-tech program that aims to support innovation and build an ed-tech community focused on revolutionizing teaching and learning -  2018
 * World Summit Award: an initiative that sheds light on the digital innovations that have positive societal impacts -  2019
 * MIT SOLVE ECE Competition: a marketplace for social impact and social entrepreneurship, connecting startups with the funding and resources to solve global challenges - 2019


 * WISE Emerging Leader: a fellowship program for the next generation of leaders in education who wish to embark on a learning journey that cultivates the mindsets, skills, and techniques necessary to thrive, nurture communities, and transform education system  -  2021


 * Theirworld Education Innovation Award: a global children’s charity committed to ending the global education crisis and unleashing the potential of the next generation  - 2021