Alef Education – Transforming the Education Industry
Alef Education is a global leading education technology company based in the United Arab Emirates. The company uses artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies to create personalised learning experiences to transform how the world is being educated. Since its inception in 2015, Alef Education has positively impacted the learning...
Innovera – A Trusted EdTech Partner in the Middle East & Africa
Innovera is a multi-national EdTech company founded in April 2013. In a short span of time, the company has grown organically by creating EdTech solutions that help address clients’ specific needs in their educational journey. Be it for faculty learners or educational institutions, Innovera provides the best-consulting services and...
Blackboard – A Trusted Technology Partner for Global Education Community
From Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) to virtual classrooms, the education technology (EdTech) industry has seen rapid growth, leading to an influx of massive investments worldwide. If global EdTech venture capital funding in 2019 was around $7 billion, in 2020, it reached $16,1 billion! The future of EdTech looks...
EdNex – To Discover the Future of Experiential Learning
The world currently is going through a crisis that is unprecedented due to the COVID-19 pandemic. For the education sector, the challenge is humungous with the education of 300+ million students disrupted worldwide, leaving the universities and schools to deal with a situation that they were never prepared to...
Specktron – Helping Education Sector to be Ready for the New Normal
As per the statistics published by HolonIQ, education was a digital laggard with less than 4 per cent of overall expenditure allocated to digital, presenting a serious challenge given the scale of what is to come. However, the global education system is in a rapid state of digital transformation...
Phy-gital and Eco-techture Spaces: Reinventing the School Building Designs
Pradeep is a dynamic multi-tasking professional with exposure in multinational and multicultural setups, Pradeep spearheads startup projects, with experience in design management, operations, and project management for setting up and commissioning innovative built environments. He is an Architect and has spent his career with global real estate companies, world-class...
Metacognitive Leadership: The Importance of Bias Questioning
Manal Zeineddine is a Global Education Consultant, quality management expert, and the founder of O.R.B.I.T.S. Development Code, a transdisciplinary approach for creating conscious leaders and communities. She is a professional development expert, who has long been experiencing, implementing, evaluating,...
Are Schools Modifying Their Inclusive Practice to Reflect the Digital Transformations in Education?
Catherine began her career with a B-Ed from DCU in Dublin, teaching in Ireland and Australia for 6 years before moving into psychology. She gained a BSc Psych from The Open University in the UK and began counselling and...
STEAM Gaining Its Due Traction by Inspiring Young Students to be Interdisciplinary Innovators
Dr. Berthold Franke is a social scientist and has been with the Goethe- Institut since 1988, with postings in Warsaw, Dakar, Stockholm, Paris, Brussels and Prague. He studied Music, German Literature and Social Sciences and worked as musician, journalist...
STEM Best Practices in K-12 Education
Pranati is the Founder and CEO of The Lavender Spaceship Project, an online STEM learning platform for primary and middle school girls. It offers personalized classes based on coding, robotics, digital design and engineering; and connects girls to women...
STEM, What is it Really?
Born in Brisbane, Cran has had a lifelong obsession with all things aerospace. Being a pilot since the age of 16, his career has taken him from flying clinic runs for the Royal Flying Doctor Service in outback Australia...
New Light Through Old Windows: The Rekindling of a Teacher’s Passion and Purpose
Tracy Kirsten has been an educator for more than 30 years, teaching both Biology and Physical Sciences to high school students from Grades 8-12. She currently teaches at St. Mary’s DSG, an independent school for girls, situated on the...
Exponential Technology, COVID-19 and Education: Will the Human Factor Survive?
Innovation is an integral component of human progress. One of the best expressions of innovation in society is technology. The Fourth Industrial revolution led human history to an exponential growth of technology driven by information technologies. Part of the...
Serve First, Lead Second: Servant Leadership Enhances Organisational Performance
Dr Joseph Kotarski has over 15 years teaching and educational leadership experience across the USA, UK, and MENA region. He holds his Doctor of Education in organizational change and leadership and his research interests aim to evaluate the use...
Metacognitive Creativity in STEAM: Learning How to Learn with a Creative Twist
It might have been the shape of the Moon or the Sun that inspired a prehistoric man to invent the wheel around 3,500 B.C. Surprisingly though, it had been first used by potters to create amazing artifacts before it...
When There Is No Roadmap, There Is A Compass
Shady Elkassas is a multiple award-winning and passionate Egyptian educator working in the United Arab Emirates. Since his childhood, he looked forward to a career in teaching, and become a committed educator providing high standards and practices in the...
Future-Proofing: Guiding our Students to Find Their Purpose
There is much debate about how best to prepare students for an unpredictable job market when most of the curricula and practices in use today were developed for mass training young people to work in factory-style jobs. There are...
Students Engagement: Challenges and Solutions
In education, we always talk about students’ engagement, we always evaluate a class based on how much students are engaged and involved in learning. Student engagement refers to the degree of attention, involvement, curiosity, interest, optimism, and passion that...
How is AI Shaping the Future of Education after COVID-19?
Sreejit Chakrabarty is the Director for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence at GEMS Dubai American Academy, the flagship school for GEMS Education, one of the world’s largest independent K – 12 education providers. He is also the Center Director of...
Comics as an Educational Tool
Miomir Dejanović draws comics, illustrations and employs them as teaching aids. Winner of the Development and Popularisation of Balkan Comics Award for 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020, consecutively, he is declared as one of the best educators in Serbia....
10 Must-Watch EdTech Companies in the Middle East
Over the years, we have seen the Middle East region focussing a lot on new technology and the future. This can be seen in the education sector too. Several schools are well prepared for the digitization of education, almost...
An Exciting Time Ahead for the Middle East EdTech Market
The never-ending waves of the COVID-19 pandemic have created the largest disruption of education systems in recent history. From preschools to universities, educational institutions, regardless of the size and reputation, have been closed to stop the spread of a...