Dive Summary:
- George Mason University economics professors Tyler Cowen and Alex Tabarrok expanded the Marginal Revolution blog to offer a free platform, Marginal Revolution University, for online education in economics.
- Cowen and Tabarrok believe their first class offering, Economic Development, can positively impact the lives of eager-to-learn students who do not have the means to pay for education.
- The long-term vision of Cowen and Tabarrak is to create an open and collaborative educational space, which they have started by inviting users to submit their own content.
From the article:
"... This platform joins the ranks of other online learning platforms that offer free and open courses to the masses, including Coursera, Udacity, and edX. Cowen and Tabarrok have created full courses through five minute video segments so that students can watch the videos without having to set aside a huge chunk of the day to absorb content. They also invite their users to submit their own content, a la Wikipedia, so that they can contribute their knowledge to the curriculum. ..."
