September 2025
Professor McLaren is starting a new project with Digital Futures, and he will be visiting again in April 2026.
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July 2025
Aditi presented her paper at the AIED Doctoral Consortium in Palermo, Italy!
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June 2025
Professor McLaren gave a keynote talk at the Learning Ideas Conference 2025!
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May 2025
Professor McLaren gave a talk titled “Developing EdTech with Purpose: Applying Learning Science to Practice”!
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May 2025
Professor McLaren gave a keynote talk at the EATEL summer school in Crete.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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September 2024
Dr. McLaren co-chaired the doctoral consortium and presented a paper at the ECTEL 2024 conference in Austria.
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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
May, 2024
Dr. McLaren is interviewed on “The Mindfulness Podcast with Dr. David Black”
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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.
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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).
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