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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
Overview Open Source model
In health care In education
Digital Divide Supercourse effort
Development & utilization
Future plans
Supercourse?
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
Overview
Supercourse faculty Full professors Epidemiologist From developed
countries
Assist. Prof.19%
Assoc Prof.17%
Full Prof.62%
Chairperson2%
Epidemiology&Health90%
Information
Technology& Teleco
m.
Developed70%
Developing30%
Overview
Supercourse Faculty’s major areas: Cancer Environmental/Occupational health Infectious disease AIDS/HIV Diabetes Medical/Health informatics and
technology
Overview
How many lectures?
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Overview
Epidemiology33%
Special Disease
29%
Public Health23%
Biostat.3%
Informatics
12%
Supercourse content: Epidemiology lectures
(62%) Introductory Special Diseases
Public Health lectures (23%)
Informatics lectures (12%)
Biostatistics lectures (3%)
For whom
Students:Working, living remote
Professors:Teaching medicine, public health
For what Degree LectureDesigned for
Learning Teaching
Provides Courses for student Lectures for faculty
Bandwidth
High-bandwidth: 10mb
Low-bandwidth: 56k
Accessibility
Domestic Global
Cost Development cost: expensiveTuition: USD 10,000~20,000
Development cost: ZeroTuition: Free lectures
Distance learning vs. Supercourse
Distance Learning
Supercourse lectures: Open Source lectures
Free Global collaboration High quality
Copyleft: No copyright
Free copy, modification, redistribution
Open Source Model
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 Time & cost
Stable software 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
e.g.Human Genome project, PrePrint Server Health care system
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
ADL Advanced Distributed Learning
www.adlnet.org US DOD
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 System for Education
Open Source Education
Supercourse OCW ADL
Availability
1997- 2002- Not know
Technology
Web-based Web-based OODS
License Free Free Not free
Copyright Free copy Free distribution
Copy, distribution with permission
No copyNo distribution
Content EpidemiologyInformatics
Engineering,Architecture, etc.
Most of distance education topics