Brief, thesis statements of the form given in the publication, it seems, in more aimed at supporting the image of open online courses, fixing them new stage of development. Although, the realities of modern e-learning are already have changed quite a lot since the pore of the greatest impulse of MEP - appearance university university platforms, one cannot but agree that the MEP is today still have significant potential, and their planned modifications and reforms can bring rather curious results in the alignment of forces and interaction of participants in the modern e-education environment. In that sense, the apologetics of the functionaries of the MEP, obviously, aims to provide influence on the formation of a kind of route map in the global e-education.