http://www.theindiapost.com/education/global-health-so-near-so-far/
By Avnish Jolly, 4th December, 2011 : Mode of Education is changing
every day and Knowledge management is upcoming field and according to
our culture transmitting Knowledge is most pious action of Human being
for Holistic development of mankind. According to Srimad Bhagavad-Gita
– Those who see with eyes of knowledge the difference between the body
and the knower of the body, and can also understand the process of
liberation from bondage in material nature, attain to the supreme
goal.
Srimad Bhagavad-Gita in four basic, concise verses:
"I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything
emanates from me. The Wise who fully realize this engage in my
devotional service and worship me with all their hearts." (10.8)
"My pure devotees are absorbed in thoughts of me, and they experience
fulfillment and bliss by enlightening one another and conversing about
me." (10.9)
"To those who are continually devoted and worship me with love, I give
the understanding by which they can come to me." (10.10)
"Out of compassion for them, I, residing in their hearts, destroy with
the shining lamp of knowledge the darkness born of ignorance." (10.11)
In the past 15 years, researchers at the University Pittsburgh
Department Of Epidemiology (part of the Graduate School of Public
Health) and a global network in 207 countries of 50,000 researchers
and teachers have devoted time to developing the Supercourse, which
has collected a library of more than 5,000 online lectures targeting
public health and prevention. In this way all these devotee
mercenaries of education are working best of their abilities to
accomplish their goal – Global Health So Near, So Far.
In this quest they published lectures in 31 languages, Supercource
published over 147 papers in leading medical journals including
Nature, Lancet, British Medical Journal, Military Medicine, Nature
Medicine, and PNAS among others. There web pages have been identified
as in the top 100 by PC Magazine, and one of the top 11 content pages
by the Lancet. There web links receive 75 million hits a year.
Supercourse does not grant degrees or certificates, but is designed to
be a resource for teachers, professors, and other educators.
Supercourse does not provide access to faculty members developing the
modules.
Supercourse originally funded three times by NASA, and by the National
Library of Medicine. They have built a "Library of Lectures" with
passionate scientific lectures from across the world. Supercourse is a
repository of lectures on global health and prevention designed to
improve the teaching of prevention. Supercourse has a network of over
56000 scientists in 174 countries who are sharing for free a library
of 4875 lectures in 31 languages. The Supercourse has been produced at
the WHO Collaborating Center University of Pittsburgh, under the
visionary leadership of Ronald LaPorte, Ph.D., with core developers
Faina Linkov, Ph.D., Mita Lovalekar, M.D., Ph.D., and Eugene Shubnikov
M.D. They have developed a technology for inexpensive, sustainable
global training. These program consists of:
1. Open Source: A Global faculty is developing and sharing their
best, most passionate lectures in the area of Prevention and the
Internet using an open source model. This benefits all. The
experienced faculty member can beef up their lectures that are not
cutting edge. New instructors reduce preparation time and have better
lectures. Faculty in developing countries have access to current
prevention information for the first time
2. Statistical Quality Assurance: They have established a Deming
Model of statistical quality control to monitor lectures over time.
3. "Support" for Educators: The Library of Lectures consists of
exciting lectures by academic prevention experts in the field. The
classroom teacher "takes" them out for free like a library book.
We"coach" the teacher rather than directly teaching students from a
distance.
4. Text books: British Medical Association put text books on line
for Supercourse.
5. Multilingual Lectures: For global use, the first lecture is in
8 languages. We are experimenting with machine translation as well.
6. Faculty: 70 Nobel Prize winners, the US Surgeon General, 39 IOM
members, 200 AES members, 55 NAS members and other top people
contributed lectures.
7. JIT lectures: Within days after a disaster lectures are
provided, e.g. the Bam Earthquake, Tsunami, H1N1, Haiti Earthquake.
8. Mirrored Servers and CDs: Supercourse have many mirrored
servers in Egypt, Sudan, China, Mongolia and others. Supercourse have
distributed 20,000 Supercourse CDs.
Since the Supercourse began 15 years ago and noticed striking changes
in the way people receive and share information — from computers and
laptops to smaller devices such as Android devices and iPhones and
iPads — and over the past 15 years the number of mobile phone users
worldwide has increased tremendously. The most widely cited definition
of m-health is by Robert Istepanian, who first defined it in the late
1990s as "emerging mobile communications and network technologies for
healthcare." The Supercourse has a somewhat different focus on mobile
technology, targeting prevention. During the past 50 years humans have
seen an increase in life expectancy of 30 or more years, almost all
due to prevention, yet most prevention consist merely of
communication, education, and dissemination of public health
knowledge. For the first time in the existence of humankind they can
reach almost everyone in the world through mobile phones, dramatically
improving the opportunities for prevention of health problems around
the world.
Beside acchiving their Goal thay are also facing hardship – one of the
biggest challenges that Supercourse faces as it transitions to support
mobile global health requirements is how to embrace the wide variety
of content formats and slide decks that health professionals want to
contribute while also delivering these disparate content collections
to different mobile devices. Further complicating the challenge are
user expectations. Mobile apps must be simple, efficient, and
extremely easy to use. Team of Supercourse believes that in the future
mobile devices will play a critical role in improving people's health,
especially in the developing world, through prevention. One of the
important applications of mobile technology is prevention of diabetes,
which is a growing problem around the world. Supercourse also hopes
that mobile technology and apps will increase their research
capabilities and help researchers collect information much faster.
While most of us have cell phones these days, we do not use their full
potential to improve health. The development of more disease
prevention apps should encourage more frequent use of mobile devices
by the general population. Supercourse welcomes everybody's thoughts
about the development of global mobile apps for health.
--
Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth. - Mohandas Gandhi
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