Initiated by University of Pittsburgh and mirrored at the BA, the Supercourse, an online repository encompassing more than 3,600 PowerPoint lectures on epidemiology and preventive medicine, represented a useful tool for at least one million students from around the globe. It also represented a well established starting point which triggered the emergence of the new Science Supercourse, an online repository of lectures freely available online for academics in four major fields of science; Public Health, Computer Engineering, Agriculture and Environment. The aim of the new Science Supercourse is the avail online accessible educational resources to empower academic students and educators worldwide. The BA has developed a new interactive platform for science supercourse deploying more functionalities, personalized experience and interactive features through a convenient user access. Through the system, users may have access to more than 169,000 searchable PowerPoint lectures where they may search the overall repository of search keywords within lectures. The system also allows registered users to customize the content on the repository as per their interest. For example, they may create their own presentations by compiling slides from different lectures, have a list of favorite lectures, receive RSS feeds and bookmark certain slides. The system acts as the right platform where scientists may upload and share their lectures online. Science Supercourse also contains a special section for Legacy Lectures, which encompasses; Nobel, Just-in-time and Golden lectures authored by various eminent lecturers, in addition to a series of lectures authored by members from the National Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of health, and Institutes of Medicine.
The mission of the UNL program, initiated within the United Nations and devised by the Universal Networking Digital Language (UNDL) Foundation, is to enable all people to generate information and have access to cultural knowledge in their native languages. It addresses the obstacle of linguistic diversity among nations and is considered a new technique towards bridging the linguistic gap among civilizations. UNL is an artificial language attempting to replicate the functions of natural language in human communication. UNL applications will include multilingual web pages, UNL encyclopedia, etc. Currently, 15 languages have been involved and a number of institutions have started to work on their respective native languages. The BA has signed an agreement with UNDL foundation to host the Ibrahim Shihata Arabic-UNL Center (ISAUC). It plays a major role in designing and implementing the Arabic component in the development of this language and will act as an active language center for Arabic.