Epidemiology Course on the Internet (48)
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Friends,
We hope you have had an excellent holiday season. We are very pleased
as to the pace of the supercourse...it is moving at super-speed. Akira
will send you an overview of all the lectures that we have. We are
very pleased as to how many lectures have been sent to us. We have won-
derful lectures, like Humberto's on malaria in Peru, which is the first
lecture I have ever taken where I learned very much, and I was scratch-
ing, due to the beautiful pictures of the mosquitos....fantastic...
Ralph has done a great food borne outbreak. Akira will go over with you
the lectures we have, their status, and the warp speed to which they
are coming in. We certainly will have an outstanding set of lectures.
We have the following number of reviews for the lectures currently
posted:
Lecture 1 - 77 reviews
Lecture 2 - 27 reviews
Lecture 3 - 18 reviews
Lecture 4 - 13 reviews
Lecture 5 - 10 reviews
Lecture 6 - 14 reviews
Lecture 7 - 17 reviews
Lecture 8 - 6 reviews (Applications of Internet to Epidemiology)
Lecture 9 - 5 reviews (Introduction to Health Economics)
Lecture 10 - 2 reviews (Hodgkin's Disease)
Lecture 11 - 3 reviews (WWW as a Global Virtual Library)
We would appreciate additional reviews for lectures 8-11 as well as re-
views for the two new lectures "Descriptive Epidemiology of Multiple
Sclerosis" and "Nutrition and Global Health".
We have decided to consider a lecture peer reviewed if it has 10 re-
views. In the next few days I will update my first 7 lectures and make
the changes according to the suggestions. We plan to post the reviews
anonymously of the people who indicated that we could. We plan to indi-
cate how we responded to each reviewer, so people examining the super-
course can see that we are making the changes. We hope to have the
first 7 lectures changed by early next week and then let the people
translating them to go full speed ahead in translating.
We want to get at least 25 lectures up by April as Ken Takahashi will
be beta testing the lectures and in June Nan Tajima from Japan will
also be testing the lectures. In addition Lily O'Hara from Australia is
considering testing some of the lectures. These 3 will test the lec-
tures on students and try different formats to see what will work.
Tom Songer and Deb Aaron suggested that we develop a faculty virtual
work book. In this virtual work book, the faculty will respond to each
lecture, also indicate some of the issues raised, and if they develop
additional materials, such as for testing, they will be put into the
faculty workbook which will be hidden from the students. Also, as peo-
ple use the lectures people can send a message to Nan, for example to
find out her experiences.
We can thus help each other teach by reporting on our experiences, pro-
viding our materials, and answering questions from others who have
taught the course before. I think that Tom and Deb had a great idea, we
would very much like your thoughts as to how we can structure this.
Thanks for your help.
Ron LaPorte & Deb Aaron
mailto:debaaron+@pitt.edu
http://www.pitt.edu/~super1
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