Never mind the generation gap?

View from the Pennines: Mind the (generation) Gap

A man who fought in the Great War is remembered with a mixture of awe and fear by the older men in the village. He lived alone on the side of the valley, and was said to have had a ‘good war’. A bit of probing reveals that this means he was surly and ill-disciplined, but good at killing. One story in particular is used to illustrate this. A young officer asked him to find a German helmet as a t...

Mind the Gap: Learning to Choose Gaps for Question Generation

Not all learning takes place in an educational setting: more and more self-motivated learners are turning to on-line text to learn about new topics. Our goal is to provide such learners with the well-known benefits of testing by automatically generating quiz questions for online text. Prior work on question generation has focused on the grammaticality of generated questions and generating effec...

“Mind the Gap” in Reporting the Outdated Statistics

Never Mind The Theory, Feel The Data

In the present paper we will seek to place the design of hypermedia-based user interfaces in the appropriate context of user-centred system design. In so doing we will outline what we believe to be the major methodological issues. As this will indicate, we view hypermedia design as essentially no different from any other kind interface design in terms of process and problem. Hence the methodolo...

Never mind the quality: feel the improvement.

Getting busy practitioners to learn about and to take up quality improvement is diYcult. Demanding work schedules and external work stressors are among the barriers. Not surprisingly, there are only a few examples of implementation of continuous quality improvement in primary care. In settings other than health care it seems that approaches to improvement—such as continuous quality improvement—...