Customer Stories

One of Australia’s leading regional institutions, the University of Newcastle (the University) has its main campus in that city, with satellite facilities throughout the Eastern Seaboard of Australia as well as a campus in Singapore.

While Charles Sturt University (CSU) boasts an impressive list of 10 physical campuses it’s also a leader in online learning; more students choose to study online at CSU than at any other Australian university.

Many of us recall that line on a school report that revealed to our parents that perhaps we had not been achieving all we were capable of.

When faced with the challenges of the worldwide pandemic, educators everywhere have been forced to develop creative solutions for teaching in remote and hybrid learning environments.

Equity has long been a topic in education, but it has risen to the forefront of conversations about learning during the pandemic. Disparities in funding, support, and access to technology have become more apparent as schools have shifted to remote and hybrid education.

Back in February, Dr. Susan Keim and Zac Jarrard from Park University in Missouri shared their story of how the Hauptmann School of Public Affairs is using Minecraft: Education Edition to teach public administration.

When Tracy Tindle asked one of her Year 5 students, who often struggled with written assignments, to instead use Minecraft: Education Edition to complete a project, the transformation was immediate and important.

The world has changed over the past six months, including our education environments. As many schools shift to the “new normal” of remote and hybrid learning, basic classroom protocols have turned upside-down.

This spring, students and schools around the world took part in the 2020 Minecraft Education Challenge, engaging in local competitions to develop solutions for the world’s most pressing issues. This story comes to us from Joy Mentzing from the Xbox Germany, Austria, and Switzerland team.

Deakin University has never been short of information – but accessing the right information, when and where it is needed was once quite a challenge.

The Australian Catholic University is ranked among the top 2 per cent of all tertiary institutions and is in the global top ten of Catholic universities. It operates eight campuses in Australia, a ninth in Rome and boasts 35,000 students and around 6,500 staff.

Today’s unprecedented public health and educational crisis is creating enormous challenges for institutions of higher education.