Bruce Martin McLarenProfessional Bio |
Dr. McLaren has an extensive background in both research and practical
applications, specifically in educational technology, collaborative
learning, intelligent tutoring, eCommerce, case-based reasoning,
and artificial intelligence.
Currently, Dr., McLaren has a split appointment as
a senior researcher at the Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz
(DFKI) and as a senior systems scientist at Carnegie Mellon University. At both
institutions, Dr. McLaren is engaged in research in human learning
and educational technology. He does his research within the Competence
Center for e-Learning at DFKI and within the Pittsburgh Science of Learning
Center at CMU. At CMU, he co-manages a team of 8 programmers
and research associates in the development and enhancement of the Cognitive Tutor Authoring Tools (CTAT).
At DFKI, he leads a small research team consisting of two PhD
students (Oliver Scheuer and Dimitra Tsovaltzi). Dr. McLaren has over
70 publications in journals, conferences, workshops, and symposiums.
In addition, Dr. McLaren has over 20 years experience in the commercial sector, applying research ideas to practical problems. As Director of eCommerce Technologies at OpenWebs Corporation from 2000 to 2002, he led a group of four engineers in the development of intelligent inter-company (B2B) trading products. He was also the leader of many expert system projects during over 10 years working for Carnegie Group, Inc. (now Logica) and Carnegie (U.K.) Limited.
Dr. McLaren holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Intelligent Systems from the University of Pittsburgh, an M.S. in Computer
Science from the University of Pittsburgh, and a B.S. in Computer
Science (cum laude) from Millersville University.
He has been a participant on many academic conference and
workshop committees. Dr. McLaren is the co-holder of two patents
and one patent pending.
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Select publications include:
McLaren, B.M., Lim, S., & Koedinger, K.R. (2008). When and How
Often Should Worked Examples be Given to Students? New Results and a Summary
of the Current State of Research. In B. C. Love, K.
McRae, & V. M. Sloutsky (Eds.), Proceedings of the
30th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp.
2176-2181). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [ pdf
]
Mikšátko, J. & McLaren, B.M. (2008). What’s in a Cluster? Automatically
Detecting Interesting Interactions in Student E-Discussions. In
B. Woolf, E. Aimeur, R. Nkambou, S. Lajoie (Eds), Proceedings
of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS-08), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5091
(pp. 333-342). Berlin: Springer. [ pdf
]
Scheuer, O. & McLaren, B.M. (2008). Helping Teachers Handle the
Flood of Data in Online Student Discussions. In B. Woolf, E. Aimeur,
R. Nkambou, S. Lajoie (Eds), Proceedings of the 9th International
Conference on Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITS-08),
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5091 (pp. 323-332). Berlin:
Springer. [ pdf
]
McLaren, B.M., Rummel, N., Pinkwart, N., Tsovaltzi, D., Harrer, A., &
Scheuer, O. (2008). Learning Chemistry through Collaboration:
A Wizard-of-Oz Study of Adaptive Collaboration Support. In
the Proceedings of the Workshop on Intelligent Support for
Exploratory Environments (ISSE 08) at the European Conference
on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2008), Maastricht,
the Netherlands, September 17, 2008. http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/Publications/CEUR-WS/Vol-381/
[ pdf
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McLaren, B.M., Lim, S., Yaron, D., & Koedinger, K.R. (2007). Can a
Polite Intelligent Tutoring System Lead to Improved
Learning Outside of the Lab? In R. Luckin, K.R.
Koedinger, & J. Greer (Eds), Proceedings of the 13th International
Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED-07),
Artificial Intelligence in Education: Building Technology Rich Learning
Contexts That Work. (pp. 433-440). IOS Press.
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McLaren, B.M., Lim, S., Gagnon, F., Yaron, D., & Koedinger, K.R. (2006).
Studying the Effects of Personalized Language and Worked
Examples in the Context of a Web-Based Intelligent Tutor. In
M. Ikeda, K.D. Ashley, & T-W. Chan (Eds), Proceedings of
the 8th International Conference on Intelligent Tutoring
Systems (ITS-2006), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4053
(pp. 318-328). Berlin: Springer. (Finalist
for the Best Paper Award)
[ pdf
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McLaren, B.M. (2006). Computational Models of Ethical Reasoning: Challenges, Initial Steps, and Future Directions. IEEE Intelligent Systems, Published by the IEEE Computer Society. July/August 2006. 29-37. [ pdf ]
McLaren, B.M. (2003). Extensionally Defining Principles and Cases in Ethics:
an AI Model, Artificial Intelligence
Journal, 150, 145-181. [ pdf ]
Ashley, K.D. & McLaren, B.M. (1995). Reasoning with Reasons in Case-Based Comparisons. In the Proceedings of the First International Conference on Case-Based Reasoning (ICCBR-95). Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, 1010. October, 1995, Sesimbra, Portugal. (pp. 133-144). Springer: Berlin. (Won the Distinguished Paper Award) [ pdf ]
Select research presentations include:
Kaleidoscope Symposium on Technology-Enhanced Learning, Oberhausen, Germany July 2005. Talk titled: "The Pittsburgh Science of Learning Center: Learning Studies and Technology in Actual Classroom Settings" (Contact: Dr. Andreas Harrer)
GE Research, Albany, New York, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. Bill Cheetham)
Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, Scotland, February 2003.
The Fraunhofer Institute, Berlin, Germany, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. Thomas Gordon)
University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh,
Scotland, February 2003. (Contact: Dr. John Zeleznikow)