Minetest for education

Why Minetest?

Free & Open Source

The Minetest Engine is developed by an independent community of volunteer developers. It is provided for everyone to use, modify and redistribute freely.

Modular & Customisable

Access a library of 2000+ free and open source community developed mods to customize your EDU environment, and an accessible scripting system for you and your students to create your own!

Low-spec & Cross-platform

Minetest has low system requirements, is compatible with previous generations of hardware, and allows crossplay from any supported device.

Projects

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Minestory School - Heritage Sites fr

académie de Dijon - Julien Crémoux

Since 2019, more than 600 primary school students from 30 classes in 3 different countries have replicated heritage sites (like Notre-Dame de Paris, the medieval Louvre castle or the Besançon citadel), placed them on an interactive timeline and gave tours and presentations in the virtual world.

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Minetest Classroom University - Digital Twin ca

Paul Pickell

A project funded by the University of British Columbia around the use of Minetest as a learning tool and for the production of digital twins of natural and human built environments. It has been used to organize virtual field trips in the context of Covid 19.

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Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg

The Landesmedienzentrum Baden-Württemberg aims at helping teachers implement future-oriented, game-based, learning in a hands-on approach. It provides Minetest server hosting, educational resources, as well as technical and educational support.

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Permis de déconstruire School - Artistic Residency fr

Praticable

Between November 2021 and June 2022, secondary school students from Aulney-sous-Bois in France have reinvented their neighborhood with Minetest. This project, coordinated by the IRI foundation and the teachers, allowed the students to explore the digital practice of cooperative and contributive construction. The projects created emphasized well-being and the neighborhood's conviviality.

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UNEJ School - Urban Planning fr

Institut de Recherche et d'Innovation

The UNEJ project (*Urbanités Numériques En Jeux*) is a 4 years project where teachers and students discover about urban planning while building concrete proposals for their neighborhood's development with the help of professionals from the sector. It is done in connection with the urban transformations carried out for the 2024 Olympics.

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Maubeuge en Cubes Citizen Participation fr

Thomate & Lemente

A Workshop for the city of Maubeuge in France where groups of young citizens between 10 and 16 years old shared ideas to improve their neighborhood. They then built them in an in-game map of their city, allowing urban planners to see what young people wanted for their local area and discuss current issues with them.

Resources

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