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

Saving Knowledge

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 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

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?

Supercourse Global Network of Scientists Sharing PowerPoint Lectures

44,000 Faculty 175 Countries

Lectures

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

12 Starting from Scratch or Recycling Content? Content is King

Epidemiology, Immunology, Complications and Pathogenesis of Type 1 Diabetes Lecture 5 Diabetes Research Ronald E. LaPorte, Ph.D. University of Pittsburgh

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

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 Ronald LaPorte

Why?

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

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

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

Pauling Lectures saved by PowerPoint on the web

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

Building a Scientific Supercourse Vetted content Network Distribution System Funding

Discipline Vetted Lectures Of Science = Keynote Speakers

Networking Scientists Scientists in 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

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

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

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