Interested in Global Health?
Ron LaPorte and a dedicated team run the SuperCourse, a resource that I have long used and admired. He writes this text in an effort to recruit contributors and users. I am only too happy to reproduce his material here — a worthy cause and a most useful resource for anyone interested in the practice and teaching of public health. Forgive the hyperbole below — the SuperCourse is a major achievement and could use the volunteers that Ron is asking for.
Here is Ron’s spiel…
Question: What is the best way to improve global training?
Answer: Improve lectures.
Question: How do we improve global health lectures?
Answer: Faculty worldwide share their PowerPoint lectures.
Question: Will faculty share lectures?
Answer: Yes, The Supercourse has 45,000 faculty from 174 countries who created a Library of Lectures with 3385. We have over 2300 lectures on global health from 650 teachers in 93 countries.
We were originally funded three times by NASA, and the National Library of Medicine. The Supercourse is like the Carnegie Free library but instead of books we share PowerPoint lectures. It is a place to go to find slides for teaching and learning about Global Health and Prevention. We have the highest global health page ranks for any educational institution. We are the highest ranking global health educational project on the web. Our program consists of:
Open Source: Our Global faculty shares their best, lectures on prevention. The experienced faculty member can beef up their lectures. New instructors reduce preparation time with better lectures. Faculty in developing countries have current prevention information
“Empower” Educators: The Library of Lectures consists of exciting scientific lectures by scholars in prevention. The classroom teacher “takes” them out for free.
Faculty: Thirty Nobel Prize winners, 60 IOM members and other top people contributed lectures by Sept. 1. Gil Omenn, AAAS, Vint Cerf, the father of the Internet, Elias Zerhouni, head of NIH, etc. contributed lectures.
Mirrored Servers and CDs: We have 45 mirrored servers in
Lectures Teaching a Million: In 12 months we taught over 1 million students last year.
JIT Lectures: We created scholarly lectures within days after the Bam Earthquake, Kristina and
Schools of Global Health: We Plan to build Schools of Global Health world wide. Scientists from 26 nations are working to establish small, mini certificate granting courses. The need is there as there are 737 Medical schools and only 71 SPH
Quality Control: There are 8 million PowerPoint lectures on the web, the only lectures and publications involving QC are ours. We are taking a multilayered QC system including peer review, Deming based Statistical Quality control, and Amazon approaches
Global Health Network: The most important aspect of the Supercourse is our 45,000 member expert network where those in say
Productivity: We have published over 170 papers in leading medical journals including Science, Nature, Lancet, BMJ, Nature Medicine, PNAS among others. Our web pages have been identified as in the top 100 by PC Magazine. We receive 75-100 million hits a year.
Join the Global Supercourse: http://www.pitt.edu/~super1/assist/join.htm
Contact Point: Ron LaPorte, Ph.D., Director, WHO Collaborating centre,
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Love your power point presentations. It has helped me with preparing lectures in Nursing fundamentals.
Keep up the good work.