Alexei Semenov, Rector of the Moscow Institute of Open Education in Russia, has won the King Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa prize from UNESCO. The prize is $25,000. From the announcement:
Under the leadership of Professor Alexei Semenov, the Moscow Institute of Open Education has provided in-service training to about 30,000 teachers annually for the past 16 years. Prof. Semenov has developed exemplary programmes to enable teachers to include ICT in their work, as well as textbooks and teacher guides used widely in the Russian Federation and other countries.
