CEO Andrew Flood mentioned the Dublin-headquartered firm’s partnership with Minecraft Training marks a ‘vital milestone’ in instructional know-how.
Irish edtech firm Prodigy Studying has struck a big take care of Microsoft that can see its Coding in Minecraft programme supplied globally by way of the software program big’s channels.
In an announcement immediately (1 Might), Prodigy Studying mentioned that it’s partnering with Microsoft to ship partaking and easy-to-teach pc science curriculum and assessments throughout the in style Minecraft Training universe.
Minecraft is a sandbox sport launched in 2011 that was created by Markus Persson and developed by Swedish online game developer Mojang Studios. The gaming franchise was purchased by Microsoft in 2014 and immediately has many spin-offs, together with Minecraft Dungeons, Minecraft Legends and Minecraft Training.
Prodigy Studying, which is headquartered in Dublin, has a Coding in Minecraft schooling programme that goals to show younger folks pc science by way of the gaming atmosphere of Minecraft Training. The programme has been adopted at school programs throughout 5 US states, in addition to in Australia’s New South Wales and Northern Eire.
CEO Andrew Flood mentioned that the partnership with Minecraft Training marks a “vital milestone” in instructional know-how.
“By combining the strengths of each organisations, we’re setting a brand new commonplace for game-based studying and evaluation, opening doorways to countless potentialities for pupil achievement and progress,” he mentioned. “Within the age of AI, our partnership will assist construct the workforce of tomorrow and create financial alternative.”
Apart from Coding in Minecraft, the partnership with Microsoft can even make an unnamed cyber product – anticipated later this yr – out there by way of its channels.
Allison Matthews, head of Minecraft Training at Microsoft, mentioned that the partnership goals to empower educators and interact college students in studying pc science.
“We’re bringing collectively Minecraft Training’s game-based studying platform and Prodigy Studying’s experience in credentialing to create a complete instructional expertise,” she mentioned. “This may allow college students to realize important abilities similar to computational considering, reasoning and problem-solving for in-demand job roles.”
In 2020, Prodigy Studying gained a contract to deploy its on-line evaluation platform referred to as Skillify throughout Irish main and post-primary colleges. A yr previous to that, it opened a brand new workplace in New York, including to its present places of work in Dublin, London and Sydney.
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