OpenCourseWare on boxee
the OpenCourseWare App offers video lectures and complete courses from MIT, Stanford University, UC Berkeley and Yale. Roshan Revankar had a chance encounter with one of the lectures and decided to build a boxee app that will bring the full experience into boxee.
i am starting with the Human Computer Interaction Seminar from Stanford. judging by the first lecture it should be a great course.
Roshan Revankar in his own words:
I’m a software developer in Los Angeles. I’ve been itching to work on
a personal project for a long time. For a while, I had my own
homegrown firefox+greasemonkey+remote control solution of watching
hulu and netflix on a mac mini connected to my TV. Until boxee came
along and made the experience so much better and best of all
expandable.OpenCourseWare is my first boxee app. I came up with the idea after
being sent a link to a lecture and discovering the wealth of material
available. It just made sense to bring it one place. Â I wrote most of
it over a weekend and polished it over the last week. The boxee api
makes it very easy to get started. Looking forward to cranking out a
lot more apps.
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Very Cool. Learning has never been so easy
Great Idea!
awesome app…great job..
Great App! Gets my vote, but… anyone get this to work on AppleTV?
Should be fixed now. Sorry for the inconvenience.
It stopped working for me on Apple TV sometime on June 16th, but worked the day before… I’d love to see it fixed!
This has now been fixed. Sorry about that.
Thanks Roshan! This is a fantastic addition to boxee!
Great stuff. Make learning easier! Thank you Roshan!
Make learning easier is our mission at http://www.graduatetutor.com. We provide live tutoring for opencourse ware from top univs. We only have b-school content for now. Rosh, if we can help, do let us know.
No WAY Roshan! This is so awesome! Congrats buddy. Having seen your work before, I know that you’re a bona-fide rock star. It’s great to see you get the public recognition that you deserve.
That’s awesome.
I watched Sergey Brin talk about China last night.
“How to start a revolution” might be interesting.
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/History/21H-001Fall-2007/CourseHome/
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