12. The method of claim 11 , wherein the one or more databases include at least one of: a database of faculty members, a database of courses, and a database of learning materials, the method further comprising providing online access to the database of faculty members, the database of courses, and/or the database of learning materials for scholar queries, course queries, publication queries, and/or learning material queries by users.
11. The method of claim 10 , further comprising: segmenting the course information block into an entry list of candidate course pages; extracting and verifying at least some of the candidate course pages as course pages including analyzing a visual structure and presentation of the candidate course pages; extracting course metadata from the course pages including, for at least one of the course pages, a learning materials information block; segmenting the learning materials information block into an entry list of candidate learning materials; extracting and verifying at least some of the candidate learning materials as learning materials; and organizing the course metadata and learning materials in the one or more databases.