Minecraft Education For Educators - Learning While Gaming

Third-party on-site course

Minecraft Education For Educators - Learning While Gaming

Using Minecraft as a platform for game-based learning and creativity.

Last updated: 01.04.2025

Next upcoming session:

23.06.2025 - 27.06.2025

Lithuania , Vilniaus , Vilnius

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Description

Understand how Minecraft Education can enhance your teaching practice and engage your students in various subjects and skills. Learn how to use Minecraft as a tool for game design, coding, storytelling, and problem-solving. Discover how to access and modify hundreds of lessons and projects across the curriculum, and how to create your own immersive learning experiences with Minecraft. Explore how to use Minecraft Education to foster collaboration, communication, and creativity among your students.

Upcoming session:
2025-06-23 to 2025-06-27, Vilnius, Lithuania (Opened)

Learning objectives

Minecraft Education benefits for student engagement and effective learning;
Minecraft Education, game design principles, and pedagogy;
Minecraft Education, coding, and computational thinking development;
Planning and conducting a Minecraft-based lesson or project;
Collaboration and communication on Minecraft Education activities;
Minecraft Education and cross-curricular learning opportunities;
Selecting and adapting Minecraft Education lessons and projects for specific student groups and subjects;
Tools and resources for collaboration and assessment in Minecraft Education projects;
Minecraft Education, immersive learning, and mixed reality;
Monitoring and assessing student performance and learning outcomes on Minecraft Education activities.

Methodology & assessment

- Brief introduction to each of the topics.
- Participants share experiences and best practices on each topic in group and plenary sessions.
- Participants experiment with the use of Minecraft Education, install, configure, and explore tools and resources.
- Individually or in groups, participants prepare lessons or projects, using Minecraft Education.

Certification details

Course participants will get a Certificate of participation and a Declaration of Obtained Competencies;
Additionally, participants will get the Minecraft Educator Certificate, which validates their knowledge and skills in using Minecraft Education for teaching and learning;
Competences acquired will be validated by the course organizers on the Europass mobility. Participants must ask their national agency to issue the Europass.

Pricing, packages and other information

Price:

400

Euro

Additional information

Language:

English
Target audience ISCED:

Primary education (ISCED 1)

Lower secondary education (ISCED 2)

Upper secondary education (ISCED 3)
Target audience type:

Teacher

Head Teacher / Principal

ICT Coordinator
Learning time:

25 hours or more