Supercourse

The concept of the Supercourse is building a “metaschool” of a variety of themes that could train students through the Internet. Lectures are selected and made available on the Internet for the personal use of individual scientists and shared without restrictions among scientists and teachers, but cannot be sold. If one uses a Supercourse lecture, the author of the lecture and the Supercourse itself should be acknowledged. The content and its accuracy are solely determined by the authors of the lectures. A pilot project has been initiated taking the public health as a theme and 1500 electronic lectures that represent the “best lectures” in epidemiology have been selected and made available on CD as well as on the web.

The BA has accepted the responsibility of maintaining a mirror site of the Supercourse http://www.bibalex.org/supercourse and automating the process of lecture selection and review, thus ensuring high availability and reliability. The target is to increase the collection to 100,000 lectures in a year and to achieve one million lectures in a three years time frame, by building a strong network of willing participating institutions and/or individuals.

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