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Minecraft Education Edition Worlds Available For Free

Written by Nikos Vaggalis   
Friday, 10 April 2020
In yet another offering during the pandemic, Microsoft has made a number of Minecraft Worlds available for free until June 30.
Now that schools are closed, you have to keep the kids occupied somehow. What better way to learn and educate through Minecraft? 
Back in 2019 we covered Minecraft's Computer Science Curriculum targeted at students in the age range 11 to 16. This has has around 30 hours of material for teaching students the merits of writing code to automate tasks using the core concepts of computational thinking, including Artificial Intelligence.

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