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Library of AlexandriaScientific Supercourse

Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.Gilbert Omenn, M.D.

Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D.Vint Cerf, Ph.D.

Faina Linkov, Ph.D.

Need for a Scientific Supercourse

• Science has become enormous, and making interdisciplinary research and training difficult

• It is a very large task to keep current for 2 areas of science, let alone 30 topics for a review course

• Scientific findings often take >5 years to appear in classrooms

• Many developing countries have not received scientific journals for a decade

Supercourse Model•45,000 faculty from 174 countries • 3383 PowerPoint lectures•26 languages represented•Top rated global health lectures•Scientists can use slides and lectures outside

their disciplines to teach•Empower teachers in developed and developing

countries by providing state of the art content•Top 100 PC magazine•Taught >1,000,000 students last year

Teacher in Mexico

Teacher in Harrisburg

Teacher in London

Teacher in Pittsburgh

Teacher in San Francisco

Supercourse Model: lecture sharing

Teacher in Sydney

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.

Nelson Mandela

How can we improve science higher education worldwide?

Question:

Answer:

Get more and better lectures

Why don’t we share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures

44,000 Faculty

175 Countries

Lectures

11

95% of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint

1. PowerPoint as a Presentation Medium

2. PowerPoint on the Web as a Storage and Distribution Medium

>7,000,000 .ppt on web

University of Khartoum, Sudan

Cuttington University, Liberia

Last Biomedical Journal1980

Library of AlexandriaScientific Supercourse

Keynote Speakers

PowerPoint lectures of recent journal articles

Supercourse Celebration in Novosibirsk, Russia

Global Supercourse Team

• Ali Ardalan• Vint Cerf• Jesse Huang• Ronald LaPorte • Mita Lovalekar• Faina Linkov• Gil Omenn• Nicholas Padilla• Francois Sauer• Ismail Serageldin• Eugene Shubnikov