An important task of pattern recognition is identifying or synthesizing stylistic variations on a signal independently of its underlying content [Omohundro 1995; Hofstadter 1995; Tenenbaum and Freeman 2000; Brand and Hertzmann 2000; Rose et al. 1998]. For example, one may want to differentiate stylistic variations in handwriting from the underlying content, or letters. We study this problem for...

This paper describes how an area of learning theory, specifically learning styles, is used to evaluate the learning outcomes of a web based course The Kolb (1985) Learning Style Inventory was administered to a group of 70 accounting students who had no prior experience with web based learning. Results are tentative, however it appears that there are learning style differences with respect to pr...

Experiential learning theory (ELT), a theory developed by David Kolb that considers experience to be very important for learning, classifies learners into four categories: Divergers, Assimilators, Convergers, and Accommodators. Kolb used his Learning Style Inventory (LSI) to validate ELT. Knowing the learning styles of students facilitates their understanding of themselves and thereby increases...

• Introduction-brief description of the purpose of this paper. • Problem Statement-short statement on what research problem is described in this paper. • Literature Review Overview-brief description of the learning style theory, primarily Kolb's, review of the validity of the Kolb Learning Style Inventory, and review of literature where Kolb Learning style theory was applied to course design. •...

BACKGROUND Experienced trainers know that individual registrars react very differently to identical learning experiences generated during the year in practice. This divergence reflects differences in registrars' learning styles. Only one study of United Kingdom (UK) general practitioners' learning styles has been undertaken. Learning style theory predicts that matching learning preference with ...

Different formal learning models address different aspects of human learning. Below we compare Gold-style learning—modelling learning as a limiting process in which the learner may change its mind arbitrarily often before converging to a correct hypothesis—to learning via queries—modelling learning as a one-shot process in which the learner is required to identify the target concept with just o...