Lebanese Alternative Learning

Lebanese Alternative Learning is a dedicated collective of educators, creative minds and tech innovators united by the belief that technology can be an equalising force for education. Their mission is to design high-quality digital education programs by leveraging technology’s transformative potential.

Their story began in 2013 in a children’s hospital. Two like-minded colleagues, Nayla (a French Literature Professor), and Nagi (a New Educational Technology Professor), met with Mireille, leading “Myschoolpulse”, a non-profit organization bringing school to hospitals. Acting on the acknowledgement that children suffering from long term illnesses found hope, joy, and normalcy in learning, they partnered to create a first draft of an e-learning platform.

To scale this initiative, Nayla and Nagi founded the Lebanese Alternative Learning (“LAL”), an EdTech NGO that strives to give every child access to free quality education, and developed further their digital learning platform, giving it the name of Tabshoura.

Since LAL believes in using technology as an equalising force to reduce the gap between privileged and underprivileged access to education, it also focused on reaching underserved areas by innovating in offline solutions.

In 2021, LAL felt the need to support educators and launched the Lalmoudaress initiative. LALmoudaress mission is to provide educators with a library of content built with educators for educators.

Today, LAL deploys its content across Lebanon through partnerships with non-governmental organisations, community-based centres, private schools, and the public school sector.