[afro-nets] Supercourse Newsletter, December 10, 2005

["Ronald E. LaPorte" <super1+@pitt.edu>]

Supercourse Newsletter, December 10, 2005
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http://www.pitt.edu/~super1
 
Supercourse: a gift that is meant to be given
Please forward to friends in academia.
 
?...lectures represent infinitely more than money. A lecture is 
not only a friend, it makes friends for you. When you have pos-
sessed a lecture with mind and spirit, you are enriched. But 
then you pass it on you are enriched threefold.? 
- Henry Miller modified for lectures
 
Passing the Supercourse on:
We want you to be enriched 3-fold. The 2,405 lectures from the 
scientists of the world are gifts meant to be given. Please 
share the Supercourse, tell your friends in and out of health 
what we as a team of 30,000 have accomplished.
 
Please tell at least 5 of your friends and relatives about the 
Supercourse including faculty, students and libraries. We must 
reach out to colleagues in different fields. We have to connect 
with young people as they are the future of global health. We 
have to reach libraries, as they are the bastions of our knowl-
edge. We share 2,405 lectures and friendship. We want to share 
with our friends to reach 1,000s if not millions more. To do 
this, please forward this note to at least 5 friends and encour-
age them to distribute this to at least 5 more. We want all 
scholars involved even remotely in Global Health to know about 
the Supercourse, including Engineering, Agriculture, Law, Educa-
tion, Business, etc... It also includes Deans and Provosts, even 
though I am not 100% sure I know what they do.
 
Please accept our free gift and join by writing a note to Mita 
mailto:super1@pitt.edu . If you have any questions just send 
them to me, mailto:ronaldlaporte@gmail.com
 
He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
- Lao-Tzu
 
Let?s see if we can scatter the Supercourse to all scholars!!!
 
Come join the December 05 Supercourse
(http://www.pitt.edu/~super1)
 
Question: What is the best way to improve global health train-
ing/research?
Answer: Improve lectures.
 
Question: How do we improve global training/research lectures:
Answer: Have faculty worldwide share their lectures:
 
Question: Will faculty share lectures?
Answer: Yes, The Supercourse has 30,000 faculty from 151 coun-
tries who created a Library of Lectures with 2,405 outstanding 
lectures on the Internet.
 
We were originally funded three times by NASA, and then by the 
National Library of Medicine. We built a ?Library of Lectures? 
by collecting the best scientific PowerPoint lectures from 
across the world. We have developed a technology for inexpen-
sive, sustainable global training. Our program consists of:
 
1. Open Source: Our Global faculty developed and shares their 
best, global health lectures using an open source model. Experi-
enced faculty can beef up lectures. New instructors reduce 
preparation time and have better lectures. Faculty in developing 
countries have access to current global prevention information 
for the first time.
 
2. ?Coach? Educators: The Library of Lectures consists of excit-
ing lectures by academic prevention experts in the field. The 
classroom teacher ?takes? them out for free like a library book.
 
3. Faculty: Six Noble Prize winners, the US Surgeon General, 60 
IOM members and other top people contributed lectures.
 
4. Mirrored Servers and CDs: We have 45 mirrored servers in 
Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia and others. We distributed 20,000 
CDs
 
5. Multiple Channels: We use multiple knowledge channels to 
share information including web, pod casting and PowerPoint.
 
6. Lectures Teaching a Million: Best teachers should produce the 
best lectures to teach millions.
 
7. JIT Lectures: We went world wide by creating scholarly lec-
tures immediately after disasters such as the Bam Earthquake, 
Katrian and Rita, Sars and avian flu. We have published over 170 
papers in leading medical journals included in Nature, Lancet, 
PNAS among others. Our web pages have been identified as in the 
top 100 by PC Magazine. We receive 75 million hits a year.
 
Please mailto:Ronlaporte@aol.com, Director, WHO Collaborating 
Center, and Professor of Epidemiology, Uni. Pittsburgh, Pitts-
burgh, PA, 15261, USA
 
Please forward this not to your friends in Academia
 
Best regards from: Ron, Faina, Soni, Eugene, Mita, Santa, Fran-
cois, Arlene, Yang, Julia, Rania, Prancer, Rudolph