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Supercourse: Open Source Model and Crossing Digital Divide EunRyoung Sa, Akira Sekikawa, Ron LaPorte Department of Epidemiology Graduate School of Public Health University of Pittsburgh Supercourse? Overview Open Source model In health care In education Digital Divide Supercourse effort Development & utilization Future plans Overview Supercourse Online teaching assistant system Online library of lectures Epidemiology, Informatics, Global Health Mission To improve global health through better training in prevention Overview Objectives To improve Epidemiology training To provide high quality lectures To make them available to any faculty and institute worldwide Overview Developers Global Health Network Supercourse working group University of Pittsburgh Department of Epidemiology WHO Collaborating Center Center for Disease Monitoring and Telecommunication Overview Funding sources NASA 1997-1999 National Library of Medicine 2000-2004 Overview Global Health Network (GHNet) Major roles: Providing lectures Using lectures Reviewing lectures Distributing lectures (CDs) 4500 members From Japan: 83 3500 universities 130 countries Chairp erson 2% Overview Supercourse faculty Develo ping 30% Full professors Epidemiologist From developed countries Develo ped 70% Full Prof. Inform 62% ation Technol ogy& Teleco m. Epidemi ology& Health 90% Assist. Prof. 19% Assoc Prof. 17% Overview Supercourse Faculty’s major areas: Cancer Environmental/Occupational health Infectious disease AIDS/HIV Diabetes Medical/Health informatics and technology Overview Lecture design: Icon-driven learning model Online review system Format Title Review Objectives References Author’s Biography Lecture Part How many lectures? Overview Supercourse content: Informat ics Biostat. 12% 3% Public Health 23% Epidemi ology 33% Special Disease 29% Epidemiology lectures (62%) Introductory Special Diseases Public Health lectures (23%) Informatics lectures (12%) Biostatistics lectures (3%) Global Health Lectures Distance learning vs. Supercourse Distance Learning For whom Students: Working, living remote Professors: Teaching medicine, public health For what Degree Designed for Learning Lecture Teaching Provides Courses for student Bandwidth High-bandwidth: 10mb Accessibility Domestic Lectures for faculty Low-bandwidth: 56k Global Cost Development cost: Development cost: Zero expensive Tuition: Free lectures Tuition: USD 10,000~20,000 Open Source Model Supercourse lectures: Open Source lectures Free Global collaboration High quality Copyleft: No copyright Free copy, modification, redistribution Open Source Model Background New model for software development Originated from computer hacking culture Success of Linux New market for software industry Open vs. Closed Success factors: Open collaboration Efficient development Stable software Time & cost High quality Flexible development Customizable Open Source Model Benefits: Convenience of collaboration International Active virtual community No legal or organizational barriers For developing countries: Cost Autonomy Open Source Movement Software industry: e.g. Linux, Apache Other areas: Biomedical science & publishing Health care system e.g.Human Genome project, PrePrint Server e.g.OSHCA Education e.g. Open Course Ware, Supercourse c.f. Advanced Distributed Learning Open Source Health Care OSHCA Open Source Health Care Alliance www.oshca.org Since 2000 Consortium Governmental organization UK NHS Industry Academia: IMIA AMIA Open Source Health Care Projects: Hospital management system InControl, VistA Electronic health record system Gnotary, OpenEHR TeleDiab Project Medal project Open Source Education MIT OCW Open Course Ware http://www.mit.edu/ Announced in 2001 Open web lectures lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists, assignment Global Copyright 500 OCW by 2003 Open System for Education ADL Advanced Distributed Learning US DOD www.adlnet.org Since 1999 Open lecture sharing system Object oriented distributed system Sharable reusable content SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model) Consortium SCORM development phase c.f. Alliance of Remote Instructional Authoring and Distribution Network for Europe (ARIADNE) ariadne.unil.ch Open Source Education Supercourse OCW ADL Availability Technology License Copyright 1997Web-based Free 2002Web-based Free Not know OODS Not free Free copy Free distribution Copy, distribution with permission Content Epidemiology Informatics Engineering, Architecture, etc. No copy No distribution Most of distance education topics