Educational content has come up many times, especially recently. With the wider release of more educational content throughout the era of COVID-19, we've decided to update our policy. Educational content should only be added if it was originally released as a series with structured episodes. One rule of thumb is that if it's pay-per-video content, or if the content is promotional in any way, it is not allowed.

Educational Content should always be added as Series, with the company/provider of the content in the Network field. We've added The Great Courses and MasterClass as Networks to enable tagging to start. If you need another course provider added as a Network, please let us know. Educational content should also be tagged with the "Educational Content" Sub-genre tag.

The waters get muddy when educational content originally airs on YouTube. Because at that point the series would be considered a Web Series. Please check the Web Series guidelines for adding these.

Some guidelines for our current Educational Course providers:

MasterClass

• Since individuals may host more than one MasterClass, we would prefer that all of a single person's MasterClasses are grouped into one Series record, and titled "Person Name MasterClass." An example is Gordon Ramsay, who offers two cooking courses. In this case, we'd name the Series "Gordon Ramsay MasterClass" and each Season would represent each course.
• Seasons should be named as the course is named on the MasterClass site. For the Gordon Ramsay example, the seasons would be:
• Season 1: "Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking I"
• Season 2: "Gordon Ramsay Teaches Cooking II"
• Episodes should correspond to each video lesson in the course. Special videos that aren't specific lectures should be added to the Specials Season.

The Great Courses

• Courses on The Great Courses should be added as Series, with the Series Title being the title of the course.
• Within the aired order, each video lesson should be considered one episode and titled to match The Great Courses website.

Content we don't support

• Udemy - lacks a coherent season/episode structure