IvyBee is a Dallas-area education company that builds game-based learning experiences, mostly inside Minecraft, and the authoring platform that powers them. Its Experiential Medical Reasoning course puts pre-med students in a digital twin of Parkland Memorial Hospital to treat virtual patients as for-credit MCAT preparation offered with UT Dallas, and its other titles include Overqualified!, a set of mini-games set in a digital twin of the UT Dallas campus, and Polycraft World, a Minecraft mod that teaches polymer chemistry and materials science. The courses run on Authura, IvyBee's own course builder, which lets educators customize content and track student performance. The company is led by Dr. Walter Voit, a UT Dallas professor and founder of the university's Center for Engineering Innovation, and its underlying work has been published in Nature Chemistry and funded by DARPA.
Rather than gamifying quizzes, IvyBee embeds full curricula into playable digital twins of real places, and pairs them with an authoring tool so institutions can build and instrument their own courses on the same engine.