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News - Teachers can now access an educational version of Cities: Skylines - xSicKxBot - 06-02-2018
Teachers can now access an educational version of Cities: Skylines
<div style="margin: 5px 5% 10px 5%;"><img src="http://www.sickgaming.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/teachers-can-now-access-an-educational-version-of-cities-skylines.jpg" width="200" height="200" title="" alt="" /></div><div><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’s <em>Cities: Skylines</em> city-building game to classrooms around the world.</p>
<p>It’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’s well in line with the folks at TeacherGaming’s history of advocating for (and helping realize) the use of video games as practical teaching tools.</p>
<p>If TeacherGaming sounds familiar, it’s because it’s the same group of folks that also helped bring about <em><a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/247888/TeacherGaming_mods_Minecraft_to_teach_basic_coding_skills.php">MinecraftEdu</a> </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 <a href="https://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/209190/TeacherGaming_launches_early_access_program_for_KerbalEdu.php"><em>KerbalEdu</em></a>. </p>
<p>The <a href="https://store.teachergaming.com/games/cities-skylines">educational version of </a><em><a href="https://store.teachergaming.com/games/cities-skylines">Cities: Skylines</a> </em>that’s now available to teachers (via TeacherGaming’s online storefront) includes custom educational tutorials and eight custom teaching scenarios that can be pared with lesson plans. Like other TeacherGaming games, it’s also been modified to allow teachers to track students’ progress.</p>
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