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SIS GLOBAL Press Release

Lighthouse Alternative Education partners with SIS Global Education and Skooler in order to provide their students with digital learning tools to support their distinct way of Learning

Date Published: 30 October 2024

SIS Global, leaders in technology solutions for Schools and Universities, and Skooler, leaders in Online Learning Tools, announce that Lighthouse Alternative Education has partnered with them to deploy a modern, personalised, Digital learner management solution.

Alongside Microsoft, Skooler will provide a technology platform which will enable a hybrid teaching approach that will provide individual learning paths based on predefined, curriculum aligned, learning outcomes and ensuring a richer, more relevant experience for both educators and learners.

SIS Global has built a strong reputation in the global education market and has a strong focus on Africa, \and, in particular, South Africa. Together with Skooler, SIS Global will help Lighthouse Alternative Education to see better learning outcomes for students and more frequent and improved communication between teachers and parents.

SIS Global is Global Education System integrator and an award-winning Microsoft Gold Partner. Skooler is a leading Next Generation Learning Platform solution built exclusively for Office 365 for Education. Lighthouse Alternative Education’s strategy is to leverage the Microsoft Education tools extensively and as such, with the seamless integration of Skooler into Microsoft Office 365 for Education , this solution will be rolled out very quickly to the staff and student base at Lighthouse Alternative Education.

Gartner states that K-12 education CIOs should ”expand beyond the basics of creating learning management systems (LMSs) or video web conferencing connections between teachers and students by identifying other digital capabilities to improve instruction.” A top trend impacting K-12 Education is embracing the Hybrid World. We are very pleased to be taking this journey with Lighthouse Alternative Education by welcoming them onto the Skooler platform. We look forward to a long and mutually beneficial partnership.

Ian Bayley – Executive Head – SIS Global Education Practice

About Lighthouse Alternative Education

At Lighthouse Alternative Education our mission is to create a successfully and different, yet modern learning environment for our Students and Educators – breaking away from the ridged norms.

Learning becomes a pleasure and speaks the modern technological language of kids today. Our different approach to Education allows our children to excel! Digital concepts make subjects interesting and exciting – motivation to understand takes the lead.

At Lighthouse Alternative Education, we are excited to see the positive mindsets in our student’s education and the Educators excelling in modern teaching methods.

Ignite advanced thinking – Foster deep learning – Augment inner strength and joy.

Annelein Booyse – CEO – Lighthouse Alternative Education

About SIS Global

SIS Global is a Global Education System Integrator (GESI) that delivers expertise, high-quality service and solutions to education customers in Africa, Europe, Middle East and the USA. SIS Global is the Strategic Partner of Skooler for Africa.

SIS Global welcomes Lighthouse Alternative Education into the SIS Global Community. Lighthouse Alternative Education will certainly benefit from our digital transformation of the education technology landscape with our strategic focus on delivering best of breed Microsoft based solutions to the sector.

Robert Hawley – CEO SIS Global

About Skooler

Skooler was founded 2015 in Norway with Offices in Norway and now has offices UK and USA. Skooler is a K-12 learning tools solution built around Microsoft 365 and hosted in Microsoft Azure. It enhances the powerful functionality and workflow of Teams, OneNote, Word, PowerPoint and more to meet the unique needs of education for online and in-class education.

Skooler is very pleased to be associated with this project and to help Lighthouse Alternative Education and our partner SIS Global to grasp this new vision and make a difference for the students and teachers at the school

David Langridge – VP Global Alliances and Market Development – Skooler

Press Enquires:
Teresa Ekland, Communications, SIS Global
Email: teresa.ekland@sisglobal.com

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