Speaker Details

Prof Ronald Laporte

Biography

· Ph.D. in Cognitive Psychology in 1977, Masters degree in Epidemiology, 1981 · 505 publications in Epidemiology, Global Health, and Internet · First Distinguished Teacher, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh 1989. · Lillienfeld Award, APHA for outstanding life time achievement in education · Director, Disease Monitoring and Telecommunications, WHO Collaborating Center, Dept of Epidemiology · Developer and PI of the WHO multinational Project for Childhood Diabetes, involving 155 centers in 70 countries · 1994 Developer, Global Health Network, · Numerous funded national and international projects from NIH, and NASA · Kelly West Diabetes Epidemiology Award from the American Diabetes Association

Abstract

Scientific Supercourse, Whisking Science to Classroom

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. (Mandela) Science and education are becoming separated with lastest findings taking 4 years to be used for teaching, and many developing countries not having access to research. We have built the Supercourse, which is like the Carngegie free library but instead of books, we share PowerPoint lectures. We have 45,000 members, and collected 3583 lectures from 174 countries. We have taught over 1,000,000 students last year. Now at the BA, we plan a bold adventure, capturing the best lectures from all of Science. From the Promise of research to Practice through education.