An open source block-based sandbox app designed specifically for education and similar to Minecraft: Education!🚀 Inspire creativity and inclusive learning by exploring a virtual world of blocks and unlocking new ways to solve any subject or challenge!✨
Student(Play) UI
🎮 Simplify the game interface to make it easier for children to play and control what children play
Parent/Teacher UI
🌍 Teachers or parents can manage children's game mods and game worlds
Built-in Educational Mods
🎁 Built-in many education-related modules (mathematics, automation, electronic circuits, programming, etc.) and selected modules...
Built-in Multi-Player Server
🖥 Support self-built local network or Internet game service for multiplayer games
Cross-platform, device collaboration
🖥 📲 Multiplayer mode supports collaboration across platforms, devices and in mixed environments
Control the total play time
⏳ Control the total time of playing in the game: when the total time is reached, you must rest for a specified time
In-game Quiz
📜 It is mandatory to take an answer test during the game, and you will be rewarded if you answer correctly
In-game quiz management
📜 Set up and manage the quiz list, award list and configuration in the game
"Minetest: Education Edition" is an interactive educational world application based on the open-source voxel game engine, Minetest.
Interactive game world for Minetest
The concept of "voxel" in Minetest is similar to building blocks like Lego. In the interactive world, players can use these blocks to create houses, tools, and more. Unlike expensive Lego bricks, players can explore the virtual worlds they create and experience the new environments they design using these building blocks.
Experience the "new world" you create
The interactive world of Minetest allows for the use of material blocks to build a wide variety of creative structures, from houses and farms to cities and tools. Players can mine and sculpt metal ore into ingots, then use those ingots to create different types of tools and structures. Unlike expensive Lego bricks, players can explore and experience their creations in a virtual world. For example, players can use ladders, make glass blocks from sand, and watch the square sun rise from their porch.
The interactive educational world of "Minetest: Education Edition"
Letting children play in the interactive educational world does not serve any educational purpose.
Even in an interactive educational world, children may avoid completing tasks and instead engage in meaningless play if there is no adult supervision or guidance: jumping from a high place to commit suicide (the child calls it bungee jumping), after being resurrected, and running away again... It can be a joy to play.
Parents/teachers can manage game content, control playtime, and have educational exercises periodically appear during gameplay to enhance learning.
To enhance the learning experience, we developed the Quiz player challenge mod to implement periodic exercises during gameplay, ensuring that children are consistently practicing and learning.
To make it easier for parents and teachers to manage game content, we directly modified the interface of Minetest by separating the student game interface (gameplay) from the teacher interface (manage game content). This makes it easier for teachers to manage the game and customize it for their students.
In addition, Minetest: Education Edition comes with a variety of built-in educational mods, including mods for mathematics, automation, electronic circuits, programming, and more. These mods provide a wealth of educational content that can be used to enhance learning in various subjects.
Looking to the future, we plan to develop a specification for a near-natural language text format, which will be used to write interactive course content. The course content written in this format can be converted into Minetest game worlds using a tool that we'll develop. This means that teachers will only need to maintain the course content text, rather than the game world itself.
This approach will make it easier for teachers and parents to collaborate on course content, as they can review and revise the text-based course content without having to deal with the complexities of building and maintaining a game world.
The game world is engaging and encourages children to keep practicing if they want to continue playing. With Minetest: Education Edition, children can explore and learn in a fun and interactive way, with the freedom to customize their learning experience to fit their interests and needs.
We hope that by releasing this open-source project, more people can benefit from the learning opportunities presented by Minetest: Education Edition.
Comparison with Minecraft: Education Edition 🎯
| Minecraft: Educational Edition | 《Minetest: Educational Edition》 | |
|---|---|---|
| Offline | Can only be used online (you must log in before entering) | Software that can run offline (no registration and login, and it can also be used without a network) |
| Type | Paid Commercial Software | Free (Free) Open Source Software |
| target users | Only for educational institutions, not for individuals | Parents/teachers are free to use |
| Courses | About 700 online courses | None |
| Modules | Not supported | Local built-in education-related modules (mathematics, science, automation, electronic circuits, programming, etc.) and selected modules |
| Stand-alone server | Not supported | Local network or Internet game service can be set up on a professional Linux server |
| Game time control | Not supported | Support game time control |
| Game content management | Not supported | Support game content management |
| Interspersed exercises | Not supported | Support periodic exercises during gameplay |
