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. [ pdf ]

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. [ pdf ]

August 21, 2024
Published: Gaming the system mediates the relationship between gender and learning outcomes in a digital learning game [ pdf ]

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” [ Link Here ]

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. [ Link Here ]

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). [ Link Here ]