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We've been waiting to share this one!

Helem's advocacy and community work had always happened in person, which meant it could only reach as far as a room. What their team needed was a way to bring that same work to people across the region, without losing the context that makes it useful.

So together, we built Helem Academy: a bilingual, self-paced digital academy, the first Arabic-language academy of its kind in the region. Three courses, real production value, and real certificates, built around the people who'd be using it.

It's now shortlisted for a Learning Technologies Award, and that feels like a nice validation of the work.

Honestly, this is one of the projects we're proudest of, so go read the full story of how it came together: https://bit.ly/4xM7MB7

We've been shortlisted!! 🎉

Kashida x Helem Academy has been shortlisted for a Learning Technologies Award, in the Best Learning Technologies Project category for the public and non-profit sector.

It's a nice moment to sit with. This project came out of the same thing we care about on every project, which is building learning that works for the people it's meant for, not just learning that looks good on a slide.

Grateful to the Helem Academy team for trusting us with this one, and to everyone on our side who worked on it.

We'll be in London this November for the awards gala to find out the results. Can't wait to share them with you!

By the way, you can read more about the Helem Academy here: https://bit.ly/4xM7MB7

Every week, a new tool promises to reinvent how your people learn.

This week, over a thousand learners, researchers, and policymakers are gathering to ask a harder question: “What happens when we can no longer be sure what's real?”

Digital Learning Week 2026 runs September 8-11, under the theme "Education in the age of AI: Facts | Frictions | Frontiers." It's a rare moment where the sector is being honest about the messiness, from AI tutors reaching learners who never had support before, to synthetic content reshaping how knowledge gets made to questions about presence and participation that didn't exist five years ago.

We're paying close attention. Not because we sell AI, but because we sell judgment, and judgment is exactly what this moment demands.

Every organization we work with is being asked some version of the same question right now: “Where does AI belong in how our people learn?” The honest answer is rarely "everywhere”. It's usually narrower, and more useful, than that.

AI can personalize a learning path. It can't tell you which behavior needs to change, or why your last training didn't stick. That still takes a strategy, one built on your people's real constraints, not a platform's feature list.

So as the conversations at Digital Learning Week unfold this week, we'll be asking the question underneath all of them: “AI is changing how we learn. What shouldn't change?”

We’d like to know where you land.

We've spent the last few years building learning experiences for people working in humanitarian spaces. A refugee studies course with UNHCR Lebanon. A leadership program for NGO executives with NetHope. An AI literacy program helping nonprofit workers use new tools without losing sight of who they serve.

None of that puts us on the ground. But it means, in a small way, we've helped some of the people who are.

On World Humanitarian Day, we're thinking about them, the ones responding, and the ones preparing to.

Your Arabic course reads perfectly. So why are learners dropping off by module two?

Translation gets the words right. It doesn't always get the experience right, the examples, the visuals, the RTL layout, or the tone. We broke down why translated content often underperforms and what real learning localization takes.

Read the full blog through the link.
https://bit.ly/3RWYX80

Every July, we mark World Youth Skills Day.

This year's theme, “Skills for a shared future”, is a good reminder that the workplace young people are stepping into looks nothing like the one most of us trained for. Technical knowledge gets someone through the door. What builds a future leader is learning designed around how they work, not a syllabus written for someone else's generation.

What's one skill you wish someone had helped you build earlier in your career?

Most e-learning projects are shaped long before a vendor is chosen.

When the RFP goes out before the problem is clear, proposals get hard to compare, and the choice narrows to price.

Our new blog covers what’s worth defining first, plus a quick pre-RFP checklist.

Worth a read before your next brief goes out.

Here is the link, or check our website: https://kashida-learning.com/what-decision-makers-should-prepare-before-issuing-an-e-learning-rfp/

Most nonprofits don't need another AI course.
They need one that fits their language, their tools, and the way they actually work.

That was NetHope's challenge across a network of more than 60 global nonprofits.
The answer wasn't a single course.
It was one shared architecture, built to be delivered many ways.

How you design learning decides how far it can scale.

See how they did it.
Read the story though the link: https://kashida-learning.com/case-studies/design-once-deliver-many-ways-building-a-global-ai-learning-ecosystem-with-nethope/

To every father who showed up every day, stayed patient, and kept believing

Happy Father's Day.

Learning technology is powerful.

But it can’t compensate for unclear goals, misunderstood learners, or content that has no strategic anchor.

The missing step?

Learning strategy. Before anything else.

Our May blog breaks it all down: the five questions every L&D team needs to answer before they open a purchase order and what happens when organizations skip them.

If you’re planning a learning initiative this year or trying to figure out why the last one fell short, this one is worth the read.

Full Blog Here: https://bit.ly/4aa00au