Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was honored last week as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011.
A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 16,000 schools and over 3 million pupils, parents, teachers, and school administrators.
The site offers realtime information about class schedules, grades, and homework assignments, an electronic document exchange platform, a large resource center, as well as a range of social and messaging functions.
The World Summit Award (WSA) contest was initiated by Austria in 2003 under the auspices of the United Nations’ World Summit framework for the Information Society (WSIS). Each year, the WSA selects and promotes the world’s best e-content and most innovative Internet or mobile applications.
