Microsoft has announced the launch of Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a new tutorial that's part of the House of Code campaign held from December 5 to December 11th (the Computer Science Education ...

Microsoft knows that Minecraft can get kids into programming, and it's banking on that strategy again this year. It just teamed up with Code.org to introduce the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a ...

A team of students and a lecturer at Hull University are using Minecraft to help teach children molecular chemistry. As reported by the BBC, the pupils, with the support of biological chemistry senior ...

With 30 million trials of last year’s Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial, Microsoft and Code.org believe the new offering will again introduce tens of millions to coding for the first time SINGAPORE, 16 ...

“The 2016 Minecraft Hour of Code tutorial builds on the success of the original in a great way,” said Mike Harvey, technology teacher from Falmouth, Maine. “By programming familiar game events ...

RESTON, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Stride, Inc. has won the prize for the development of Periodic Rescue, a chemistry game in Minecraft, that has taught basic chemistry to over 10,000 students. This year’s ...

MANILA, Philippines — Study your lessons, yes. But do it while playing video games? The Department of Education (DepEd) is embracing the concept of “game-based teaching,’’ after the restrictions ...

Virtual world-building game Minecraft, played by tens of millions of children worldwide, could be used in schools to teach pupils chemistry. A group of Hull University students created an educational ...