Proceedings of the Learning Engineering Research Network Convening (LERN 2026)

Proceedings of the Learning Engineering Research Network Convening Applied Learning Engineering Research & Testing (ALERT) What Works When for Whom Under What Conditions: Learning Engineering as an Enabler of Component-based Research Learning Engineering Body of Knowledge A Tiered Framework for Educational Event Data Documentation: Synthesizing Principles and Addressing Gaps IEEE Standards for Scaled Learning Engineering Learning Engineering by Design: An Agentic AI Application for Rapid, Personalized Health & Safety Training in Disaster Response and Hazardous Environments Scaling Interleaved Mathematics Practice  Teacher Education through Learning Engineering: An Action Research on Faculty Transformation Understanding Instructor Perspectives and Course Challenges in FSE 100: A Learning Engineering Approach to Improving the Course Human Centered Applications within Learning Engineering A Learning Engineering Approach to Transforming Teacher Practice Through Co-Designing Science Curricular for Multilingual Learners A Learning Strategy Analysis for Guiding the Creation of a Team Training Immersive Reality Environment Advancing Usability of an Immersive Virtual Reality Team Training Environment within a Learning-Engineering Cycle Case Study: Learning Economy Foundation Competency Graph Co-Designing a Study Platform for ASU Graduate Students to Enhance Learning Productivity and Performance Through Connection Co-Designing AI-Enabled Learning in Nursing Education: A Learning Engineering Approach Using Faculty and Student Insights Developing a Model to Support Collaborative Engineering Projects: Student Uncertainty as a Productive Resource for Engineering (SUPER-E) Developing Learning Strategy Heuristics for Active Mobile Learning Platforms Human-Centered Learning Ecosystems: Reimagining Water Education for Real Estate Professionals AI Systems Informed by Learning Engineering A Predictive Learning Engineering Framework for Modeling Active Learning Adaptive Multi-Modal Deepfake Detection for Safer Learning Environments Agentic PAL: Designing Human-Empowered AI Partnerships for Early Childhood Mathematics Learning An Application of Design-Based Implementation Research to Develop a Framework to Support a Community of AI-experience Creators Automated Run-on Sentence Detection and Correction for Educational Writing Automatic Identification and Evaluation of Revisions in Student Writing Using Large Language Models Automatically Generating Interactive Learning Experiences with an LLM-Driven Agentic Pipeline Bridging Human Intelligence Augmentation (IA) and Classroom Practices via GenAI in Learning Engineering Charm-bots: The Impact of A.I.’s Sycophancy Language on User Trust Coaching, Not Autocomplete: Early Evidence from ConnectInk’s AI‑Supported Personal Narrative Pilot Comparing Epistemic Emotions and User Experience Across Two AI Instructional Designs in Biology Learning Currents of Inquiry: Insights From Two Years of Real-World AI-Learner Water Conversations Design and Pilot Evaluation of a Gamified Narrative Chatbot for STEM Education Designing for Student Engagement with AI in Courseware: Lessons from Iterative Improvements to DOT in REAL CHEM EdLight Research Portal: An Expert-Annotated Repository of Handwritten Math Student Work  Epistemic Cognition and Uncertainty Navigation with a Domain-Specific AI Chatbot in STEM Education From Course Concept to Lecture Video: An AI-Powered System for Automated MOOC Development From Measurement to Action: A Learning Engineering Approach to AI-Powered Assessment for Human Power Skills Development Implementing Concept Instruction via MCP Server  L2-French Learners and Generative AI (GenAI): Challenges, Needs, and Design Guidelines  Learning-By-Explaining with Generative AI: A Pilot Implementation in Introductory Biology LLM Safety in an Educational Context: A holistic approach  Media Mentor AI: How a SCAMPER‑guided AI assistant is helping reimagine media literacy learning MIRANDA: Real-Time Learning Analytics for Authentic Embedded Assessment Multiple-Document Comprehension in High School Science: A Learning-Engineering Pilot Study NLP Validation of Prompt Strategies for Theory-Aligned LLM-Generated Personalization Open Repository for AI Models as Learning Engineering Components Optimizing Language-Focused Writing Feedback from Large Language Models through Prompt Engineering Quality Assessment Through Learning Engineering: An Evaluation Rubric of LLM-Generated Multiple-Choice Questions Reasoning LLMs are Competent Courseware Reviewers ReQUESTA: A Hybrid Agentic Framework for Generating Cognitively Diverse Multiple-Choice Questions Social and Emotional Dimensions of Generative AI Use Socio-Emotional Learning in AI K-12 Guidance and Policy Documents: A Gap Analysis The Difficult Conversations Bot: Findings on Fostering Empathy and Reflective Communication Among Faculty and Staff The Writing Analytics Tool: A Learning Engineering Approach to Designing AI-Supported Writing Instruction Towards Automated Detection of Struggling Student Programmers  User experience design of AI-assisted human-technology ecosystem for writing assessment Using AI to Bridge Technology Gaps in Higher Education Educational Technology Informed by Learning Engineering CoreTrust as a Civic Learning Tool: Community Capital for Inclusive Digital Governance Engineering a Semantic Topicality Instrument for Multiple-Choice Question Quality Control Design and Development of Two Digital Solutions for Promoting Harmonious Relationships: Buddy Up and Squeez From Immersion to Action: How VR Influences Behavioral Intentions Around Advanced Water Purification From Immersion to Behavioral Intentions: Virtual Reality and Advanced Water Purification How Students Really Use Courseware: Visualizing Student Pathways in Integrated Chemistry Courseware REAL CHEM Action Research Through the LearnLab Summer School SCALED: A Transferable Learning-Engineering Model for Large-enrollment STEM Courses Terracotta: Lowering Barriers to Experimental Education Research The Education Tree: A New Theoretical Model for P-20 Education and Development The Impact on Cognition and Motivation Using Gaming, Simulation, and Visual Learning in Military Flight Training The Promise of Scenario-Based Assessments for College Instruction “Walk It Out”: An Embodied and Mobile AI Tutor for STEM Education