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Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria Scientific 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. Send Comments to ronlaporte@aol.com. Saving Knowledge. Need for a Scientific Supercourse.

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Strategic Plan: Building a Library of Alexandria Scientific Supercourse

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  1. 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. Send Comments to ronlaporte@aol.com

  2. Saving Knowledge

  3. 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

  4. Supercourse Model • 45,000 faculty from 174 countries in the field of prevention networked • Collection of 3383 lectures • 800 lectures translated into Spanish, all lectures to be translated into Chinese • Top rated global health lectures, one of the top sites for health • 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

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

  6. Question: How can we improve science higher education worldwide? Answer: Get more and better lectures

  7. But how do we get more and better lectures? Why don’t we share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free?

  8. Supercourse Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures

  9. Global Health Network 44,000 Faculty 175 Countries

  10. Lectures 3383

  11. 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 11

  12. Starting from ScratchorRecycling Content? Content is King 12

  13. Creating a Lecture for a College Class on Diabetes Epidemiology, Immunology, Complications and Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Lecture 5 Diabetes Research Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

  14. Craftsman/Artisan Epidemiology, Immunology, Complications and Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Lecture 5 Diabetes Research Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Craftsman Model:New lecture created from scratch by Scientist educators. It requires 15 to 25 hours of preparation, using Journals, and Books 14

  15. Ronald LaPorte Epidemiology, Immunology, Complications and Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Lecture 5 Diabetes Research Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh Supercourse/Recycle Model:Reusing and customizing using existing slides and lectures collected from world experts requires only 1 to 3 hours development time per lecture

  16. Why?

  17. 95% of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint • 75% of Distance Learning use PowerPoint 17

  18. What wiped out the lectures? Dust to Dust Linus Pauling Lecture

  19. What wiped out the lectures? Dust to Dust Linus Pauling Lecture

  20. Pauling Lectures saved by PowerPoint on the web

  21. Joshua Lederberg(1958) Baruch S. Blumberg(1976) Ferid Murad(1998) Gunter Blobel(1999) Nobel Prize Laureates in the Supercourse (Medicine) Eric R. Kandel (2000) Paul Greengard (2000) Leland H Hartwell (2001) Paul C Lauterbur (2003)

  22. Building a Scientific Supercourse Vetted content Network Distribution System Funding

  23. Discipline Vetted Lectures Of Science = Keynote Speakers

  24. 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

  25. Distribution Scheme • Library of Alexandria Supercourse • Mirrored servers in all national libraries • DVDs • Mirrored servers for each scientific Disciplines

  26. Funding • Before anything begins a secure funding source needs to be identified • One possibility is that the societies pay to put lectures into the Supercourse as this would provide cross-disciplinary exposure • Donations • Ad Revenues in the same manner as many societies obtain add revenues • Aligning with major journals such as Science, Nature, Lancet, etc. • National Library subscriptions • NSF

  27. Time Frame • Year 1: 200 Keynote lectures from Major Scientific Disciplines • Year 2: 600 • Year 3: 1000 • Year 4: 5000

  28. Prometheus statue At the Library of Alexandria Send comments to: ronlaporte@aol.com

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