'Minecraft: Education Edition' Officially Arrives In November

After a long summer of test runs, the full version of Minecraft: Education Edition will officially launch on the 1st of November. When it goes live, the service will require a yearly $5 membership per user or a district-wide licence, however, the Early Access edition is still free until November.

According to the MinecraftEdu team, over 35,000 students and teachers have played in the sandbox of Minecraft ever since the program was first launched at the beginning of summer. With the official launch, the team has created a variety of new features geared towards education, including a "Classroom Mode" that offers a top-down look at the Minecraft world via an accompanying app. In the app, teachers can control the settings of the world and chat with their students in game, give out items or even teleport their children around the map from a single interface. The education edition will be updated as the main Minecraft world develops. https://premiumebooks.net/ are encouraged to offer feedback and feature suggestions.

Finally, for any teachers who haven't stepped into Minecraft's blocky world yet, education.minecraft.net offers some starter worlds, tutorials, free lesson plans in subjects ranging from storytelling to city planning, and a mentoring program to connect them with other educators. At launch, Minecraft: Education Edition requires OS X El Capitan or Windows 10, plus a free Office 365 account to use.