JOD Grant

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Building Knowledge Societies the Supercourse
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Strategic PlanBuilding 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'
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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
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Changing Life Expectancies
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Causes of Death in Qatar
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• 95 of Classroom Lectures use PowerPoint
• 75 of Distance Learning use PowerPoint

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But how do we get better lectures?
Improved Manufacturing and Delivery of Lectures
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Concept
Why dont scientists and educators share our
most exciting PowerPoint lectures on the Internet
for free?
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Internet Library of Lectures
Faculty can choose 1-4000 lectures Educating the
Teacher
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Global Health Network
44,000 Faculty 175 Countries
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Lectures
3383
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Supercourse Lectures Teaching 1,000,000 Students
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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 gt1 million in the past 12 months

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WHO-NCD-Supercourse
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Scientific Supercourse
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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 gt5 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 gt700 years, we should archive our lectures

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Supercourse

• Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint
  Lectures

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Building a Scientific Supercourse

• Vetted content
• Network
• Distribution System
• Funding

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Discipline Vetted Lectures Of Science Keynote
Speakers
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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

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Distribution Scheme

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

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Prometheus statue At the Library of Alexandria
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