Microsoft announced the next effort in a series of educational Minecraft products today: the Minecraft Hour of Code Designer, a free tutorial co-developed by Code.org that teaches students as young as ...

Video games are always seen as a purely recreational activity, but Minecraft has come up with an innovative way of educating players. Minecraft Education Edition is Minecraft’s humble attempt to make ...

In a three-way partnership Microsoft Corp., Mojang AB and Code.org have announced the celebration of the third annual Hour of Code, a programming event directed at teaching children to program ...

The popular block-building-sandbox game is creeping into the third annual Hour of Code, a worldwide campaign to spark students' interest in programming. CNET freelancer Anthony Domanico is passionate ...

Minecraft is a popular sandbox game that has building, survival and exploration elements. The game can easily be identified because of its block-like pixelated characters. Minecraft: Education Edition ...