Supercourse What is the best route to improve global health? Using the Internet to reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease.
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Supercourse What is the best route to improve global health? Using the Internet to reach large numbers of healthy people to prevent disease WHO DIAMOND Project 155 Centers 70 Countries 19,212 Children Registered 7.2% of Children WHO Collaborating Center Janice Dorman, Ph.D. Director Molecular Epidemiology Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D. Director Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications GSPH 2003: A PREVENTION ODYSSEY Global Life Expectancy 20 years 30 years 40 years 70 years If Cars Developed as Same Pace as IT 100,000 mi/hr 250,000 miles/gallon Cost = $5.00 Question: How can we improve Prevention education worldwide? Answer: Get better lectures Why don’t scientists share our most exciting PowerPoint lectures for free? What makes good teaching? Interaction Style Books Lecture Content Importance of Good Materials Which do you like better? Sam and Dave Quality of Materials Speed of Translation from Research to classroom Language of Science Helping Teachers Globalization Copy Left Library of Lectures Quality Assurance Crossing the Digital Divide What is the new global language of teaching? Helping Teachers Experienced teachers New Educators University of Khartoum, Sudan Last Biomedical Journal 1980 Cuttington University, Liberia Library of Lectures Faculty can choose 1-2000 PowerPoint lectures Assisting the Teacher 20,300 Faculty 4000 from Developing Countries 151 Countries Lectures Freedom of use, no restriction for use Goal is to make the program perpetually “free”, no restrictions for use and free charge Faculty sharing their most exciting, passionate lectures, for free, an Open Source system cavorite-lis n -fGET tg/stores/d communit rate-item cust-rec just-say-no true m/justsay 3000 Reviews 4.12/5.00