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Building Knowledge Societiesthe Supercourse
Strategic Plan:Building a Library of Alexandria Scientific
Supercourse
Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D.Gilbert Omenn, M.D.
Ismail Serageldin, Ph.D.Vint Cerf, Ph.D.
Faina Linkov, Ph.D.
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Imhotep,
the "father of medicine". The word "Imhotep" means "he who comes in peace'
Medicine is a science from which one learns the states of the human body with respect to what is healthy and what is not, in order to preserve good health when it exists and restore it when it is lacking
Ibn Sina, the opening to the Qanun fi al-tibb
Changing Life Expectancies
Causes of Death in Qatar
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95% of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint
75% of Distance Learning use PowerPoint
Improved Manufacturing and Delivery of Lectures
Why don’t scientists and educators share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures on the Internet for free?
Faculty can choose 1-4000 lecturesEducating the Teacher
Internet Library of LecturesInternet Library of Lectures
44,000 Faculty
175 Countries
Lectures
Supercourse Lectures Teaching
1,000,000 Students
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.
Nelson
Mandela
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• Developed under grants from NASA and NLM/NIH• Global Expert Network of 45,000 including 20 Noble Prize Winners, Director NIH, US Surgeon General, Vint Cerf•3,383 PowerPoint lectures on prevention• 80 million hits a year • Highest Google Percentile Ranked Site for Global Health lectures• 170 publications in Science, Nature, PNAS• Top 100 PC magazine site• Taught >1 million in the past 12 months
WHO-NCD-Supercourse
Scientific Supercourse
Need for a Scientific Supercourse
• Science has become enormous, and compartmentalized 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
• Many Scientific findings take >5 year to appear in classrooms
• A large number of developing countries have not received scientific journals and books for greater than a decade
• Scientists have always shared, why not share our best lectures?
• The Library of Alexandria saved scientific works for >700 years, we should archive our lectures
Supercourse
Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures
Building a Scientific Supercourse
•Vetted content
•Network
•Distribution System
•Funding
Discipline Vetted LecturesOf Science =
Keynote Speakers
Networking Scientists
• Scientists in 1-20 of each other• 45,000 Prevention network
contacting Scientific Friends• Flier in Spanish, Russian, Chinese,
Japanese• Viral Marketing• All Scientists in world knowing
about this in 3 weeks
Distribution Scheme
• Library of Alexandria Supercourse
• Mirrored servers in all national libraries
• DVDs
• Mirrored servers for each scientific Disciplines
