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Hi Bemanna, thanks for the message and for contributing to the MOOC page. I've just lost one reply in a firefox crash! So, I've inserted a cut down version of the EduKart text under 'related educational practices'. EduKart isn't a MOOC platform, and while the definition of "MOOC" is contested and complex, there need to be some filtering factors. This may change over time, but at the moment EduKart isn't calling itself a MOOC provider (ditto Udemey which is also in that section) and it seems to be doing something different to what most people would consider a MOOC. Moreover, Wikipedia is not a directory WP:NOTDIR - so it doesn't need to cover all MOOC providers necessarily, unless they're noteworthy. Finally, the level of coverage of individual providers on the article page (versus their own pages) versus the coverage of MOOCs generally - their history, definition, broad nature, etc. - is important; I don't think any one provider is particularly discussed at the moment and it's probably weighted by noteworthiness. I hope that answers the concern, do reply if you want to discuss further though Sjgknight (talk) 14:53, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the reply. My reading of the article you're posting is "Unlike a MOOC EduKart does xyz" yours is "Unlike these MOOCs this MOOC provider (EduKart) does xyz"...I'm afraid I disagree with your reading. Re: Business model, the whole point of MOOCs is that they're free to take, whereas EduKart courses are not. If we include courses which charge fees on the MOOC page as MOOCs then why not include University of Phoenix, The Open University and various other institutions which do that at scale, etc. It seems closer to projects like Khan Academy, Udemy, and others - all of which, like EduKart - are interesting projects, but they aren't considered MOOCs - if EduKart is given heavy attention outside of the section I've put it in, I'm not sure what the rationale for not moving Khan Academy, etc. out of that section would be. Perhaps they will become thought of as a type of asynchronous (or whatever) MOOCs at some point, but I don't think that's the case at the moment. The table that you'd initially changed is directly taken from a report on business models of MOOCs by the way, I suppose that could be appended to when appropriate, but it's a good secondary source which claims to have reviewed models across MOOCs and didn't include things like Khan Academy or EduKart, etc. which I suppose also provides support for what I'm saying, and I'd want something quite weighty to persuade appending on the table. We could perhaps copy this conversation over to the talk page. Sjgknight (talk) 16:27, 4 October 2013 (UTC)

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