Dubai, UAE (May 4, 2021): Kezana is the leading specialized electronic information solutions provider in the Middle East, today announced that Nahla wa Nahil™, an Arabic Digital Reading Solution, was named a 2021 SIIA CODiE Award finalist in the Best Advanced Reading/Writing/Literature Instructional Solution category. CODiE Award finalists represent applications, products, and services from developers of educational software, digital content, online learning services and related technologies across the PreK-20 sector.
Nahla wa Nahil was created by Arabic language teachers to ensure that K-8 students at all reading levels have access to the appropriate resources they need to improve their Arabic reading and comprehension skills. Providing the most advanced Arabic educational e-reading platform, N&N’s unique game-based approach fosters student engagement and challenges them as they improve their levels of reading and comprehension. Usage tracking, student assessments and dashboards enable teachers to monitor student comprehension and progress, and tailor instruction to meet each student's individual needs.
“Im very excited that www.nahlawanahil.com has been recognized by SIIA as a 2021 CODIE Finalist, in the Best Advanced Reading/Writing/Literature Instructional Solution category. It was an idea that we had 6 years ago, to empower young learners with the digital learning tools to improve their Arabic language and reading skills and save the Arabic language, to reality.
I am equally proud of our team for their creativity, hard work, perseverance, and, more than anything else, teamwork, to build the leading #arabiclanguage learning and levelled reading platform for children around the world”. says Kezana CEO Mohamed Al Bagdadhi.
Acknowledged as the premier awards program for the software and information industries for over 35 years, the SIIA CODiE Awards are produced by the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA), the principal trade association for the software, education, media, financial information and digital content industries. Nahla wa Nahil™ was honored as one of 152 finalists across the 42 education technology categories.
“The CODiE Awards recognize the most exciting and transformative products in Ed Tech,” said Jeff Joseph, SIIA President. “This year, these leaders helped our nation respond to the historic pandemic, enabling learners, educators, administrators and parents to remain connected to each other and to critical educational resources via an array of innovative services and platforms. Congratulations to this year’s finalists for demonstrating the vitality, resilience and importance of this important industry.”
The SIIA CODiE Awards are the industry's only peer-recognized awards program. Educators and administrators serve as judges and conduct the first-round review of all education nominees. Their scores determine the SIIA CODiE Award finalists which accounts for 80% of the overall score. SIIA members then vote on the finalist products and the scores from both rounds are tabulated to select the winners. In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, Business Technology category winners will be announced during an online winner announcement celebration June 22, 2021.
Details about each finalist are listed at https://history.siia.net/codie/2021-Finalists
Kezana is the leading eLearning solutions provider in the Middle East and North Africa. Kezana partners with globally recognized publishers, scientific societies and education technology companies; The company’s mission is to ensure that students, schools, universities, healthcare, government and corporate have access to the most current and critical information at their fingertips in order to improve and advance learning, research and patient outcomes.
Al Manhal, a division of Kezana; is the global leader in Arabic language e-learning solutions. Their solutions include Nahla wa Nahil™, an Arabic language digital literacy solution for pre-school and elementary school learners, as well as its full-text searchable databases of Arabic scholarly and scientific publication for universities and research centers.
Together, Kezana and Al Manhal aim to drive better outcomes in education, research, and healthcare by providing next generation learning solutions to its customers.
The SIIA CODiE Awards is the only peer-reviewed program to showcase business and education technology’s finest products and services. Since 1986, thousands of products, services and solutions have been recognized for achieving excellence. For more information, visit siia.net/CODiE.
SIIA is the only professional organization connecting more than 700 data, financial information, education technology, specialized content and publishing, and health technology companies. Our diverse members manage the global financial markets, develop software that solves today’s challenges through technology, provide critical information that helps inform global businesses large and small, and innovate for better health care and personal wellness outcomes.