Global University of Nature Science (GUNS) is an online platform-based university that offers doctoral programs in the fields of Social Science, Healthcare, Medicine, Engineering, and Natural Sciences. The university also offers state-of-the-art short courses and workshops designed for students, professionals and entrepreneurs in various professional development subjects. Initially, the online division of GUNS is dedicated to only doctoral studies. GUNS is World’s first Medical-Doctoral University that is truly research-based. The teaching methodology is based on a groundbreaking book: Reconstituting the Curriculum (Islam et al., 2013) mainly in graduate level education. This methodology capitalizes on the most important features of the Information Age, thus eliminating most important problems of the modern education system and restoring true education. Any student that graduates from GUNS is guaranteed to have most up to date knowledge of the past and most comprehensive vision of the future of his/her discipline.
GUNS offers students a one-time life experience of true education through a research-oriented program. This unique methodology eliminates all shortcomings of modern education system, including plagiarism, low retention, and lack of enthusiasm. All students will learn to master the art of academic research through courses on methodology, and cap their education with a one-of-a-kind thesis for each subject and will form the basis of a final comprehensive thesis prior to graduation. Instead of classroom lectures, students will receive a list of research questions related to each subject that will form the basis of their individual education. These questions will include guiding questions as well as real questions. By researching the answers to each question, they will automatically gain full perspective of the current state of the art of each topic as a precondition to discovering new knowledge. Each year research questions will be upgraded based on the renewed state-of-the-art of the subject. The methodology is uniquely suited for diverse group of students, including students with special needs.
The Faculty members will be selected based on the their conscience, expertise and extraordinary scholarship in respective disciplines. Some faculty members will be drawn from among volunteers, retirees, and entrepreneurs from across the globe. Their task would be to ask guiding questions as well as real questions (whose answers are not known to them) and comment on the answers provided by students. They will be part of the educational program in the sense
that they will benefit in terms of gaining new knowledge. The teacher-student format that has created the current roadblock to true education will be avoided.