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Marginal Revolution University, called MRUniversity for short, is an effort into the online education space 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 MOOCs. However, the videos and course materials are accessible even 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. The announcement was praised by education skeptic Bryan Caplan in a blog post for EconLog.

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.

Subsequently, Marginal Revolution University was profiled in media outlets including The Huffington Post, reason.tv, and Washington Monthly. It was also briefly mentioned on one of the blogs of National Review.