Web Application to Search and Rank Online Learning Resources from Various Sites

Abstract

E-Learning is becoming one of the most reliable and fast methods for learning in the present days and this trend will only continue to grow in the coming years. However, the process of finding the correct course in the desired topic is becoming harder and harder day by day due to the sheer number of resource material being uploaded to the internet. Currently, whenever there’s a need to acquire a new skill or learn something new, people go on different platforms to search for resources to learn them - YouTube for videos, Google for blogs, Coursera/Udemy/Edx for courses. This leads to taking too much time in finding the right resource to start learning. They have to try out multiple resources before finding the right one. We plan to eliminate this with our website, where a single search query will fetch the top videos, blogs, and courses for that query. Users will be able to rate the results, and the upcoming search results will be ordered primarily based on the user ratings. This will allow the most useful blogs, courses, and videos to rank up. Additionally, the resources will have comments and tags, so that the user can read a review before opening a tutorial. The services such as the APIs and the technique of Web Scraping are used to achieve this goal.