The Complete Guide to Using AI in the Education Industry in Lebanon in 2025

Lebanon's 2025 moment for AI in education is real: a national AI conference is touring five cities to connect diaspora experts, policymakers, and school leaders, and even includes an eye-catching AI Bus Tour and AI-generated music performances that make the stakes feel tangible.

That momentum is a practical opening for educators and administrators to move beyond theory - addressing infrastructure gaps and brain drain by investing in skills and classroom-ready tools - and to align policy, teacher training, and curricula with local needs.

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Pairing national dialogue from the AI in Lebanon Conference with targeted training creates a clear path from conversation to classroom impact.

“This conference is a unique opportunity to gather Lebanese minds from around the world, align visions, and co-create a roadmap for Lebanon's digital future.”

Lebanon's 2025 AI-in-education picture looks like a patchwork of promise and practical gaps: regional momentum - exemplified by the new ALECSO Charter on AI Ethics - offers a framework that Lebanese universities can plug into to protect cultural values, promote open-source tools, and pursue “Arab technological sovereignty” rather than import whole solutions (University World News coverage of the ALECSO Charter on AI Ethics).

“Today, we face a collective responsibility to ensure that artificial intelligence is a driving force for progress and prosperity, not a tool that deepens digital divides or threatens human values.”

At the same time, lessons from across the Arab world show familiar constraints Lebanon must address - uneven infrastructure, limited faculty training, and concerns about cultural relevance and academic integrity highlighted in recent reporting on AI's impact in Arab higher education (Al-Fanar Media roundup on AI's impact in Arab higher education).

On the ground, local pilots and vendor partnerships point to immediate wins: cost-saving deployments and analytics used by school systems (for example, pilots by the local partner CODERS SOLUTIONS pilot programs) can free faculty time and fund digital literacy programs.

The practical roadmap for Lebanon in 2025 is therefore dual: adopt regionally aligned ethics and open-source strategies while scaling small, education-focused pilots that demonstrate measurable classroom and administrative gains before wide rollout.

Global leaders are taking very different routes to bring AI into classrooms - each offering concrete lessons for Lebanon: the UAE has surged into the top tier by pairing massive infrastructure with national training and curriculum plans, boasting access to more than 188,000 cutting‑edge AI chips and commitments to train teachers and roll out an AI curriculum across public schools (UAE AI national ranking and education investments (ITP.net)), while Estonia's AI Leap 2025 shows how a compact country can scale fast through a public‑private foundation model that starts with 20,000 students and 3,000 teachers in phase one and partners with vendors to co‑design learning tools (Estonia AI Leap 2025 education initiative (e-Estonia)).

Broader market and policy reporting also flags risks Lebanon must manage - data privacy, algorithmic bias, and widening digital divides - even as the AI Engagement Index reveals a useful strength: Lebanon ranks modestly in raw engagement but ranks 23rd per capita, suggesting a concentrated, motivated pool of learners and educators to build on (AI Engagement Index country rankings and per-capita analysis (ApX)).

The practical takeaway: combine targeted teacher training and small, measurable pilots with regional ethics and open‑source strategies so the country's outsized per‑user interest converts into classroom tools that actually save time and uplift learning - the difference between an experiment and a system change can be as tangible as deploying a single effective tutoring model that frees teachers to mentor rather than grade.

“A.I. will not be monopolized by just a few countries.” - Eric Xing, president of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (source: The New York Times)

When asked which country has the most advanced AI today, the short answer for policy and educators in Lebanon is: the United States still leads in sheer frontier output and private investment, but China is rapidly closing the gap - and that mix matters for practical planning.

Stanford's 2025 AI Index shows U.S. institutions produced roughly 40 notable AI models in 2024 versus China's 15, and U.S. private AI investment reached about $109.1 billion compared with China's $9.3 billion, even as breakthroughs like China's DeepSeek‑R1 have been described as a “Sputnik moment” that can shift expectations overnight (Stanford HAI 2025 AI Index report, Recorded Future analysis: Measuring the U.S.–China AI gap).

For Lebanon this means two concrete choices: don't chase frontier compute, but do invest in what's become affordable and deployable - open‑weight and small, efficient models whose inference costs fell dramatically in 2024 - and shore up the strategic inputs that actually make AI useful at scale (energy, data governance, and talent pipelines) as argued in “The Weakest Link” analysis (ARI 'The Weakest Link' strategic inputs analysis).

Practically, that translates into funding teacher training, running tight, measurable pilots with open models, and building simple data‑safety rules so schools capture the classroom benefits of AI without getting trapped by costly infrastructure or brittle vendor lock‑in - because in a world where breakthroughs arrive fast, the most resilient systems are those that convert global advances into local, low‑cost wins that save teacher time and improve learning.

“AI is poised to be the most transformative technology of the 21st century.” - Stanford HAI, 2025 AI Index Report

By 2025 AI is already woven into students' study routines worldwide - and Lebanese educators should read those signals as both an opportunity and a warning: large surveys put student AI use anywhere from about 74% (a Zendy survey showing 73.6% of students use AI, often for literature reviews and writing) to headline figures like

92% of students use AI in their studies

(Higher Education Policy Institute coverage summarized at Programs.com), with tools such as ChatGPT, Grammarly and Copilot dominating classrooms; at the same time teachers report real time‑saving benefits - some studies show AI cutting lesson prep and admin time by large margins - so the practical question for Lebanon is how to channel near‑universal student adoption into responsible, curriculum‑aligned practice rather than scramble to catch up.

That's why small, measurable pilots matter: local examples and vendor partnerships (for instance, pilot programs by CODERS SOLUTIONS) show how schools can prove out cost and time savings before scaling - avoiding costly vendor lock‑in while building clear policies on accuracy, academic integrity, and teacher training so an entire generation doesn't just reach for an AI tutor between lectures, but learns how to use it well (Zendy 2025 survey on AI use in education for students, Programs.com 2025 report summarizing 92% student AI use, CODERS SOLUTIONS Lebanon AI pilot programs for education efficiency).

For Lebanese educators looking for practical, low‑cost ways to bring AI into classrooms, start with teacher‑friendly tools that offer free tiers and strong privacy safeguards: try the Edutopia teacher-tested AI tools roundup for educators to get hands‑on with easy starters (including Brisk Teaching and NotebookLM) and see which workflows match your biggest time drains (Edutopia teacher-tested AI tools roundup for educators); install the Brisk Teaching Chrome extension for lesson plans and feedback to generate leveled lesson plans, quizzes, and personalized writing feedback right inside Google Docs (Brisk Teaching Chrome extension for lesson plans and feedback); and evaluate an all-in-one option like SchoolAI all-in-one classroom AI tools for teachers if the goal is to reclaim hours across planning, assessment, and engagement while observing data‑privacy promises (SchoolAI all-in-one classroom AI tools for teachers).

Mix and match: use NotebookLM to turn PDFs into podcast‑style summaries for flipped lessons, Suno to produce a short science song for memory hooks, and Brisk or SchoolAI to keep grading and differentiation efficient - small pilots with free tiers let schools in Lebanon prove time and cost savings before larger rollouts, and the tangible win can be as simple as turning a dense worksheet into an audio study guide students actually finish.

“We're on a mission to put teacher-led, personalized learning in every classroom without adding one more thing to your plate.”

Lebanon's homegrown edtech scene is compact but active: Tracxn counts 39 K‑12 startups - from long‑standing school‑management suites like eSchool to nimble tutor marketplaces such as Ostaz - and reports an average of about two new launches per year, eight startups with funding and three at Series A+; for a snapshot see Tracxn: Top K‑12 EdTech Startups in Lebanon (Tracxn: Top K‑12 EdTech Startups in Lebanon).

Local success stories matter: Ostaz, now acquired, enrolled roughly 43,000 students and logged tens of thousands of teaching hours before exit (profiled in a regional roundup of MENA edtech winners - EdTechReview: Top Funded EdTech Startups in MENA (EdTechReview: Top Funded EdTech Startups in MENA)), and investors such as Phoenician VC and Kafalat iSME are actively backing the space (investor activity tracked by Shizune highlights Phoenician VC's multiple deals - Shizune: Top EdTech Investors in Lebanon (Shizune: Top EdTech Investors in Lebanon)).

For educators and policymakers the practical takeaway is clear: prioritize partnerships with proven local players, seed measurable pilots, and tap the concentrated talent and investor interest already wiring Lebanon's classrooms for smarter, lower‑cost tools.

Practical classroom use cases for AI in Lebanon range from the immediately doable to the pedagogically transformative: repurpose AI to draft lesson plans, generate quiz banks and rubrics, and produce leveled or multimodal explanations that meet students where they are (for example, ask a model to explain a concept to a 5‑year‑old, a college student, and an expert, then have learners compare the three versions) as described in the Al‑Fanar guide “Redefining Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI” (Al‑Fanar guide: Redefining Teaching and Learning in the Age of AI); run tight pilots with local partners to prove time and cost savings (see CODERS SOLUTIONS pilot projects for Lebanon's education providers) and combine those results with classroom sentiment monitoring - tools like Yakshof classroom sentiment monitoring tool for schools in Lebanon - to tune policy and uptake.

Use cases that preserve academic integrity include redesigning assessments to require project‑based, challenge‑based, or higher‑order multimodal work that AI can assist but not fully complete, deploying AI as a Socratic tutor for targeted revision practice, and embedding AI literacy lessons so students learn to vet and cite outputs; the practical payoff is clear - a single, well‑run pilot that frees teachers from routine grading can release the time needed for mentoring, feedback, and deeper learning.

“teaching can be a means of empowering students to creatively construct their own knowledge, experiences, and understandings of the world and to rethink and re-envision research and writing in the era of AI writing tools.”

Lebanon's policy and deployment challenge is less about hype and more about hard governance: universities and ministries must translate high‑level commitments into concrete rules, resourced oversight, and classroom‑level capacity.

Pragmatic frameworks such as the new EDUCAUSE eight‑principle guidance - calling for beneficence, transparency, privacy protections, and even an Institutional AI Ethical Review Board - offer a playbook for embedding ethics into procurement, assessment, and faculty development (EDUCAUSE guidance on AI ethics in higher education); at the same time the ALECSO Charter on AI Ethics frames the region's priorities - protecting cultural values, pushing for Arab technological sovereignty, and insisting on monitoring and evaluation so policies don't remain symbolic (ALECSO Charter on AI Ethics - Arab region priorities (University World News)).

Those regional and institutional anchors matter because Lebanon's real constraints are operational - limited technical know‑how, fragmented governance, and unequal access - so short, measurable pilots with local partners (for example, savings demonstrated in CODERS SOLUTIONS projects) can prove the case for scaled investment while keeping control of data and avoiding vendor lock‑in (CODERS SOLUTIONS pilot projects demonstrating AI cost savings in Lebanon education).

The bottom line: pair ethics frameworks with funded capacity building, clear accountability structures, and student‑and‑faculty engagement so AI becomes a tool that frees teacher time without eroding equity or cultural integrity.

“Today, we face a collective responsibility to ensure that artificial intelligence is a driving force for progress and prosperity, not a tool that deepens digital divides or threatens human values.”

Lebanon's clear next step is to turn the conference's momentum into durable capacity and community: use the AI in Lebanon tour as a launchpad for an AI Academy, mentorship programs, and innovation awards that connect diaspora mentors, universities, and startups (see the conference overview at DxTalks), while seeding short, measurable pilots with proven local partners like Coders Solutions coding bootcamp in Lebanon to show real time and cost savings in classrooms and administration.

Scale those pilots with focused capacity building - replicating what worked in past national efforts that trained hundreds of instructors and reached tens of thousands of students - and pair them with clear ethics and data rules so schools avoid vendor lock‑in and protect equity.

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The most concrete outcome: a few well‑run local pilots, backed by training and a network of mentors, that free teachers from routine tasks and buy time for deeper mentoring - a small, visible win that proves the case for national scale while keeping control local.

“We plan to launch ongoing initiatives such as an AI Academy, mentorship programs, annual innovation awards, and partnerships with chambers of ...”