{"id":22008,"date":"2018-05-29T23:49:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319027"},"modified":"2018-05-29T23:49:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T23:49:00","slug":"teachers-can-now-access-an-educational-version-of-cities-skylines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/29\/teachers-can-now-access-an-educational-version-of-cities-skylines\/","title":{"rendered":"Teachers can now access an educational version of Cities: Skylines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish edugaming startup TeacherGaming has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/pressreleases\/318978\/Paradox_Interactive_Expands_Cities_Skylines_to_the_Global_Educational_Market_with_New_TeacherGaming_Partnership.php\">teamed up with publisher Paradox Interactive<\/a> to bring an educational version of Colossal Order&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Cities: Skylines<\/em> city-building game to classrooms around the world.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a nice bit of news for the 2015 game ((which has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/315350\/Cities_Skylines_has_sold_5M_copies_on_PC_alone.php\">sold over 5 million copies<\/a>) that&#8217;s well in line with the folks at TeacherGaming&#8217;s history of advocating for (and helping realize) the use of video games as practical teaching tools.<\/p>\n<p>If TeacherGaming sounds familiar, it&#8217;s because it&#8217;s the same group of folks that also helped bring about\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/247888\/TeacherGaming_mods_Minecraft_to_teach_basic_coding_skills.php\">MinecraftEdu<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/263855\/Microsoft_buys_MinecraftEdu_moves_to_put_Minecraft_in_more_schools.php\">acquired by Microsoft<\/a>) and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/209190\/TeacherGaming_launches_early_access_program_for_KerbalEdu.php\"><em>KerbalEdu<\/em><\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/store.teachergaming.com\/games\/cities-skylines\">educational version of\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"https:\/\/store.teachergaming.com\/games\/cities-skylines\">Cities: Skylines<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>that&#8217;s now available to teachers (via TeacherGaming&#8217;s\u00a0online storefront) includes\u00a0custom educational tutorials and\u00a0eight custom teaching\u00a0scenarios that can be pared with lesson plans. Like other TeacherGaming\u00a0games,\u00a0it&#8217;s also been modified to allow teachers to track students&#8217; progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finnish edugaming startup TeacherGaming has teamed up with publisher Paradox Interactive to bring an educational version of Colossal Order&#8217;s\u00a0Cities: Skylines city-building game to classrooms around the world. It&#8217;s a nice bit of news for the 2015 game ((which has sold over 5 million copies) that&#8217;s well in line with the folks at TeacherGaming&#8217;s history of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22009,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22008","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22009"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}