December 2025
Aditi Haiman gives a talk at ICCE 2025 in Chennai, India. She presented the paper titled: “Impact of digital learning game narratives on affective experiences and learning.”
December 2025
Professor McLaren does a live interview on South Korean radio on the topic of AI-powered toys.
October 2025
News Article: CMU, Accenture Advance AI in Workforce Training
October 2025
Professor McLaren gave a talk at the Edunext meeting in Bari, Italy on October 20, 2025 titled: “AI in Education: Six Approaches That Have Been Effective For Learning.” Edunext is a collective of over 30 universities in Italy who are charting out a new direction in higher education in the age of Gen AI.
September 2025
Professor McLaren is starting a new project with Digital Futures in Stockholm, Sweden, and he will be visiting again in April 2026.
July 2025
Aditi presented her paper at the AIED Doctoral Consortium in Palermo, Italy!
June 2025
Professor McLaren gave a keynote talk at the Learning Ideas Conference 2025!
May 2025
Professor McLaren gave a talk titled “Developing EdTech with Purpose: Applying Learning Science to Practice”!
May 2025
Professor McLaren gave a keynote talk at the EATEL summer school in Crete.
February 2025
Published: Zhang, J., Baker, R.S., Srivastava, N., Ocumpaugh, J.L., Mills, C., & McLaren, B.M. (2025). Carelessness detection using performance factor analysis: A new operationalization with unexpectedly different relationship to learning.
February 2025
The McLearn Lab completed our first full-length study with our Angle Jungle game!
January 2025
Published: Borchers, C., Fleischer, H., Yaron, D.J., McLaren, B.M., Scheiter, K., Aleven, V., & Schanze, S. (2025). Problem-solving strategies in stoichiometry across two intelligent tutoring systems: A cross-national study. Journal of Science Education and Technology.
December 2024
Published: Prof. Bruce M. McLaren, B.M. (2024). Decimal Point: A decade of learning science findings with a digital learning game. In: Ilic, P., Casebourne, I., Wegerif, R. (eds) Artificial Intelligence in Education: The Intersection of Technology and Pedagogy. Intelligent Systems Reference Library, vol 261. Springer, Cham.
October 2024
Meaningful Play 2024 was held at CMU, and Hayden gave a talk about our gender effect findings with Decimal Point!
Citation:
Stec, H., Richey, J.E., Nguyen, H., Else-Quest, N., Hammer, J., Baker, R.S., Arroyo, I., & McLaren, B.M. (2024). Using a multi-dimensional model of gender to assess learning with different game-based learning narratives. Paper presented at Meaningful Play 2024. Pittsburgh, PA, October 16-18, 2024
September 2024
Dr. McLaren co-chaired the doctoral consortium and presented a paper at the ECTEL 2024 conference in Austria.
August 21, 2024
Published: Gaming the system mediates the relationship between gender and learning outcomes in a digital learning game
July 8-12, 2024
Dr. McLaren gave two talks at the AI in Education (AIED 2024) conference in Brazil
May, 2024
Dr. McLaren is interviewed on “The Mindfulness Podcast with Dr. David Black”
February, 2024
Carnegie Mellon University HCII Seminar Talk: “Decimal Point: A Decade of Learning Science Findings with a Digital Learning Game”
February, 2024
Dr. McLaren is keynote speaker for the 11th International Conference on e-Learning and e-Teaching (ICeLeT 2024), Focusing on Technology Enhanced Learning. Title of talk: “A Decade with Decimal Point: How a Digital Learning Game Became a Research Platform,” (Virtual Presentation) Isfahan, Iran.
January, 2024
Dr. Huy Nguyễn, McLearn Lab member, successfully defended his thesis!
September, 2023
Lab paper, first authored by Huy Nguyễn, wins the Best Paper Award at the Eighteenth Annual European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (ECTEL 2023).