Services
GL provides the following specialized services:
- Content Development
- E-Learning Consultancy
- Educational Management
Content Development
GL teams have developed a large number of world-class courses, sessions and learning objects, at school, university and professional development levels, as well as teachers training and Training of Trainers (ToT) programs, based on the latest international content development standards. Over the past decade, we have nurtured a vast experience in the following areas:
- Instructional design
- Graphic design
- Multimedia design and development
- Curriculum and program design, implementation and accreditation
- Content design for blended delivery
- Development of compliant content with SCORM and other international standards
- Arabization and localization of international content
- Development of edutainment content and gamification components and activities
- Design and implementation a variety of assessment tools
- Development of MOOCs content
- Development of mobile and multiscreen content
- Learning video production
- Collaborative learning content
- User experience and interaction design
- Teachers training programs, including introducing student-centered learning, personalized and differentiated learning, adaptive learning, technology-enabled learning and change management
E-Learning Consultancy
GL teams embark on more than 15 years of hands-on educational technology experience in the region. Global Learning and its subsidiaries have led the market through developing innovative solutions, including the first accredited virtual university and first accredited blended learning academy in the Middle East region. More than 3 virtual universities have been set up and managed. More than 10 eLearning Centers of Excellence in leading regional universities have been established and maintained. eLearning solutions for schools, training institutes, corporations and government organizations have been designed, implemented and managed. Based on this ongoing and proven experience, GL provides state-of-the-art learning and EdTech consulting services and turn-key solutions. Such services include:
- Blended learning and eLearning solutions for schools, universities and corporates
- Integrating technology and social media into learning and training processes
- eLearning and change strategy development and implementation
- Greenfield eLearning projects: virtual universities, virtual schools, virtual training institutes
- Informal and social eLearning solutions
- Re-engineering and restructuring of academic institutions to technology-enabled institutions
- Academic market research, branding, awareness and feasibility studies
- Academic branding strategies
- Modern academic methodologies implementation
- Capacity building and training of teachers and students
- Training needs assessment, and learning pathways and program design and development
- Selection, customization and optimization of Learning Management Systems (LMS), Assessment Management Systems (AMS), Learning Content Management Systems (LCMS), Virtual Classrooms, and smart classrooms and video conferencing solutions
- Design and new business models for education
- Restructuring classroom layout design and introducing the latest educational equipment and technology
- Procurement of modern furniture, equipment, devices, applications, solutions and technology for labs, classrooms, and administration.
Educational Management
Educational institutions in the MENA region have reacted slowly to the digital transformation, and updating their educational models, to quit the old methodologies of covering learning materials, to modern competency-based curricula and approaches, which foster excellence, critical and creative thinking, problem solving, decision making, leadership, citizenship, digital literacy, social and emotional skills, and 21st century skills, to prepare futureproof and market-ready graduates.
Such transformation requires modern flexible regulations from Ministries of Education, and investment in various technology applications, to modernize both their administrative and academic services. Those two factors were missing, until everyone had to face COVID19 and switch to blended or online learning, without the right preparation, tools, and training. Moving from conventional to blended or online learning require a solid pedagogical model, the right tools and technologies that are usually not afforded by small and medium individual schools, and a cultural change that includes specialized teacher training programs, and awareness campaigns for school administration, students and parents.
GL teams have been working on such models for more than wo decades, with a strong regional and international presence and impact. This is why, instead of just offering consultancy and solutions to schools, GL has developed an educational management service, through a subsidiary called Global Education, which includes the following:
Such transformation requires modern flexible regulations from Ministries of Education, and investment in various technology applications, to modernize both their administrative and academic services. Those two factors were missing, until everyone had to face COVID19 and switch to blended or online learning, without the right preparation, tools, and training. Moving from conventional to blended or online learning require a solid pedagogical model, the right tools and technologies that are usually not afforded by small and medium individual schools, and a cultural change that includes specialized teacher training programs, and awareness campaigns for school administration, students and parents.
GL teams have been working on such models for more than wo decades, with a strong regional and international presence and impact. This is why, instead of just offering consultancy and solutions to schools, GL has developed an educational management service, through a subsidiary called Global Education, which includes the following:
- Long term rent of existing schools, with full management take over
- Digital transformation of all administrative services
- Pedagogical model of how to transform conventional learning to blended/online learning.
- Full fledged e-learning platform, that includes a learning management system (LMS), world-class digital interactive content, virtual classroom, and a collaboration environment. GL offers various brands for each item.
- Intensive teachers training program.
- Intensive awareness campaign for students and parents.
- Student access to online learning.
- Change management strategy.
- In-class equipment for blended learning.