InternetUrok (Russian: "ИнтернетУрок") is educational online platform headquartered in Moscow, Russia. The platform includes an online library for schoolkids, their parents and teachers and a private online school from grades 1 to 11. The platform was founded by Mihail Lazarev in 2009.
Description.
In 2020, the library contained over 4,700 school lessons which include animations, illustrations, links to external sources, synopses and interactive tests for self-examination. The service provides feedback to learners who can ask their questions the teachers and get quick responses. The materials are constantly updated and replenished, the site is free of advertising. Most of the materials on the portal are in the public domain.
InternetUrok Home School is a fully online private school offering Russian secondary education for students all over the world since 2014. There are three study formats to choose from:
Since 2017, students and their parents may get assistance in solving educational and administrative issues from personal mentors.
Indicators.
Number of students at the end of the academic year:
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to the transition of the vast majority of schools in Russia to distance learning, which has led to a significant increase in users of the InternetUrok portal.
Geography of users.
InternetUrok Home School is popular in Kazakhstan where it is legally impossible to switch to homeschooling but Russian school certificates are equally acknowledged as well as Kazakh ones.
Founder of the InternetUrok.
Mihail Lazarev (1946—2021) is entrepreneur, inventor, investor, founder of the educational project InternetUrok and the brand of vitamins «Alphabet».
Studied at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology at the Faculty of Aerophysics and Space Research (1964—1970). Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. Author of scientific papers and patented inventions. Engaged in entrepreneurship in the field of high technologies (since 1989). In 2002 he founded the pharmaceutical company «Aquion». Co-author of patents, on the basis of which the preparations «Alphabet» and «Kudesan» were created.
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