EunRyoung Sa ,
Department of Epidemiology
Graduate School of Public Health
University of Pittsburgh

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Overview
Open Source model
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In health care
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In education
Digital Divide
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Supercourse effort
Development & utilization
Future plans

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Supercourse
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Online teaching assistant system
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Online library of lectures
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Epidemiology, Informatics, Global Health
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Mission
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To improve global health through better training in prevention

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Objectives
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To improve Epidemiology training
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To provide high quality lectures
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To make them available to any faculty and institute worldwide

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Developers
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Global Health Network -
Supercourse working group
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University of Pittsburgh
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Department of Epidemiology
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WHO Collaborating Center
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Center for Disease Monitoring and Telecommunication

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Funding sources
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NASA
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1997-1999
National Library of Medicine
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2000-2004

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Global Health Network
(GHNet)
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Major roles:
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Providing lectures
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Using lectures
Reviewing lectures
Distributing lectures (CDs)
4500 members
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From Japan: 83
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3500 universities
130 countries

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Supercourse faculty
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Full professors
Epidemiologist
From developed countries
Develo ping
30%
Inform ation
Technol ogy&
Teleco m.
Full
Prof.
62%
Develo ped
70%
Chairp erson
2%
Epidemi ology&
Health
90%
Assist.
Prof.
19%
Assoc
Prof.
17%

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Supercourse Faculty’s major areas:
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Cancer
Environmental/Occupational health
Infectious disease
AIDS/HIV
Diabetes
Medical/Health informatics and technology

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Lecture design:
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Icon-driven learning model
Online review system

Title
Objectives
Author’s
Biography
Review
References
Lecture Part

Informat
3%
Public
Health
23%
Special
Disease
29%
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Epidemi ology
33%
Supercourse content:
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Epidemiology lectures (62%)
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Introductory
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Special Diseases
Public Health lectures (23%)
Informatics lectures
(12%)
Biostatistics lectures
(3%)

Distance learning vs. Supercourse
Distance Learning
For whom Students:
Working, living remote
For what Degree
Designed for Learning
Accessibility
Cost
Professors:
Teaching medicine, public health
Provides Courses for student Lectures for faculty
Bandwidth High-bandwidth: 10mb Low-bandwidth: 56k
Domestic
Development cost: expensive
Tuition: USD 10,000~20,000
Lecture
Teaching
Global
Development cost: Zero
Tuition: Free lectures

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Supercourse lectures:
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Open Source lectures
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Free
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Global collaboration
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High quality
Copyleft:
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No copyright
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Free copy, modification, redistribution

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Background
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New model for software development
Originated from computer hacking culture
Success of Linux
New market for software industry

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Success factors:
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Open collaboration
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Efficient development
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Time & cost
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Stable software
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High quality
Flexible development
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Customizable

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Benefits:
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Convenience of collaboration
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International
Active virtual community
No legal or organizational barriers
For developing countries:
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Cost
Autonomy

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Software industry:
 e.g. Linux, Apache
Other areas:
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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

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OSHCA
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Open Source Health Care Alliance
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 www.oshca.org
Since 2000
Consortium
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Governmental organization
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UK NHS
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Industry
Academia:
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IMIA
AMIA

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Projects:
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Hospital management system
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InControl, VistA
Electronic health record system
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Gnotary, OpenEHR
TeleDiab Project
Medal project

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MIT OCW
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Open Course Ware
 http://www.mit.edu/
Announced in 2001
Open web lectures
 lecture notes, course outlines, reading lists, assignment
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Global
Copyright
500 OCW by 2003

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ADL
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Advanced Distributed Learning
 www.adlnet.org
US DOD
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Since 1999
Open lecture sharing system
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Object oriented distributed system
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Sharable reusable content
SCORM (Sharable Content Object Reference Model)
Consortium
SCORM development phase
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f. Alliance of Remote Instructional
Authoring and Distribution Network for
Europe (ARIADNE) ariadne.unil.ch

Supercourse OCW ADL
Availability 1997-
Technology Web-based
License Free
Copyright Free copy
Free distribution
Content Epidemiology
Informatics
2002-
Web-based
Free
Copy, distribution with permission
Engineering,
Architecture, etc.
Not know
OODS
Not free
No copy
No distribution
Most of distance education topics