Help! Dean Drowning in Survey Requests

Drowning: a cry for help.

IN this issue of ANESTHESIOLOGY, Layon and Modell review current evidenced-based management of drowning victims who reach medical care. Modern resuscitation research of the drowning victim now spans decades. This review article expertly and comprehensively evaluates information resulting from that investigation; perhaps as important as that which is said, is that which is not said. Throughout t...

Effects of Dissuading Unnecessary Help Requests While Providing Proactive Help

We tested effects of dissuading students from requesting help unless they really needed it. The manipulation occurred while the students solved problems on an ITS that provided proactive help. Compared to their counterparts, dissuaded students requested help much less often. Moreover, the less help students requested, the higher their posttest score. Among students with lower pretest scores, di...

Leveraging Help Requests in Pomdp Intelligent Tutoring Systems

Calling All Facebook Friends: Exploring Requests for Help on Facebook

Past research suggests Facebook use is linked to perceptions of social capital, a concept that taps into the resources people gain from interactions with their social network. In this study, we examine a sample of public Facebook status updates (N=20,000) for instances in which users request a response from their network. These attempts to mobilize resources offer insight into the mechanisms th...

"Cascades, torrents & drowning" in information: seeking help in the contemporary general practitioner practice in the UK

This paper responds to the Alpine Rendez-Vous “crisis” in technologyenhanced learning. It takes a contested area of policy as well as a rapid change in the National Health Service, and documents the responses to “information overload” by a group of general practitioners practices in the North of England. Located between the spaces identified by Traxler and Lally as “competitive industrialisatio...