Online Economics Education
Marginal Revolution University, called MRUniversity for short, is
an online education website run by Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok, bloggers at
the Marginal Revolution weblog and economics professors at George Mason
University. The website
includes free-to-watch videos, interactive comments, and the option of actively
enrolling and participating in courses, in the fashion of massive open online
courses (MOOCs). The videos and course materials are also accessible for those
who do not enroll in a course or register on the site. The videos are
structured as simple PowerPoint slide presentations with voice-overs by the
speakers. The audio can also be downloaded separately. Those who formally
register for a course and take the final examination can get a certificate of
completion.
History
Marginal Revolution
University was announced by Tyler Cowen on the
Marginal Revolution blog on September 5, 2012.
Alex Tabarrok subsequently
announced that Marginal
Revolution University's
first course would be on development economics.
Around October 1, 2012, the first
videos for the development economics course started going up on the site, and
more videos were gradually rolled out through December 2012.
See Also
Khan Academy
Coursera
Massive Online
Open Course
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