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Building Knowledge Societies the Supercourse

Building Knowledge Societies the 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. Imhotep ,

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Building Knowledge Societies the Supercourse

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  1. Building Knowledge Societies the Supercourse

  2. 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

  3. Imhotep, the "father of medicine". The word "Imhotep" means "he who comes in peace'

  4. 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

  5. Changing Life Expectancies

  6. Causes of Death in Qatar

  7. 95% of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint • 75% of Distance Learning use PowerPoint 7

  8. But how do we get better lectures? Improved Manufacturing and Delivery of Lectures

  9. Concept: Why don’t scientists and educators share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures on the Internet for free?

  10. Internet Library of Lectures Faculty can choose 1-4000 lectures Educating the Teacher

  11. Global Health Network 44,000 Faculty 175 Countries

  12. Lectures 3383

  13. Supercourse Lectures Teaching 1,000,000 Students

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

  15. 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 23

  16. WHO-NCD-Supercourse

  17. Scientific Supercourse

  18. 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

  19. Supercourse Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures

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

  21. Discipline Vetted Lectures Of Science = Keynote Speakers

  22. 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

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

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

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