GOAL-DRIVEN LEARNING - FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES - A SYMPOSIUM REPORT

In AI, psychology, and education, a growing body of research supports the view that learning is a goal-directed process. Psychological exper iments show that people with varying goals process information differe ntly, studies in education show that goals have a strong effect on wha t students learn, and functional arguments in machine learning support the necessity of goal-based focusing of learner effort. At the Fourte enth Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, a symposium b rought together researchers in AI, psychology, and education to discus s goal-driven learning. This article presents the fundamental points i lluminated at the symposium, placing them in the context of open quest ions and current research directions in goal-driven learning.