Dnevnik.ru, Russia’s first social educational network, was included last week in EdTech Europe’s list of the most influential European companies in the sphere of e-learning and educational technology.
The criteria for selection included compliance with key trends in the sphere of e-learning (SaaS, MOOC, adaptive learning, gaming), scalability of a project’s technology and the influence of a company in the global EdTech market.
A free, nationwide school network, Dnevnik.ru was established in 2007. The site currently serves 30,000 schools and over 5 million pupils and students, 3 million parents and 644,000 teachers.
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.
Dnevnik was also honored as one of the of the best e-learning and educational websites at the World Summit Award 2011, a contest organized each year by a UN agency.
The project received $1.7 million from Prostor Capital in 2011 and $5 million from Runa Capital in 2012.
