Kambeo.com is a site to encourage people to "Learn something". It aggregates millions of courses offered by thousands of institutions across the United States and allows you to search them by name, related topics or keywords.
The site also incorporate other "learnable" items to enhance the learning experience. Courses from OpenCourseWare (OCW) are included, TED Videos, uReddit classes and others are all linked together to give a rich learning experience.
Kambeo is built in two parts:
- Drupal 7 powered web application
- Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) data aggregator
Drupal syncs course data, institution data and taxonomy terms using web services. The "search" results are generated on the ESB and Drupal displays the collection of results. Then, since the data exists are normal Drupal objects, users can comment on courses, share links, drill into the taxonomy topics list and do everything else you'd normally do with Drupal.
Data is transferred using REST based services using our REST Client module for Drupal.
The blog section uses our Snowstorm Blog feature which allows the content creators to easily add new posts while the Snowstorm Editor makes the content easy to read and maintain from any device.
