Welcome to the McLearn Lab

We are a research group at Carnegie Mellon University, led by Professor Bruce M. McLaren, that studies learning sciences, educational technology, digital learning games, intelligent tutoring systems, collaborative learning, and e-learning principles.

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News

October 2024
Meaningful Play 2024 was held at CMU, and Hayden gave a talk about our gender effect findings with Decimal Point!

September 2024
Dr. McLaren co-chaired the doctoral consortium and presented a paper at the ECTEL 2024 conference in Austria.
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Soon to be published!
McLaren, B.M. (in press). Decimal Point: A decade of learning science findings with a digital learning game. To appear in P. Ilic, R. Wegerif, & I. Casebourne (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Intersection of Technology and Pedagogy. Springer Verlag Germany.
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August 21, 2024
Published: Gaming the system mediates the relationship between gender and learning outcomes in a digital learning game
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July 8-12, 2024
Dr. McLaren gave two talks at the AI in Education (AIED 2024) conference in Brazil

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