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  1. Continuous Play Option.

    It would be awesome to be able to queue up a series of videos. I'm listening to/watching the Development Economics series, and many of the videos are only a few minutes long. I like to listen while I paint my house, and I keep having to stop and run back to the computer to play the next video. It would be nice to be able to select several to play in a row. I could watch/listen to a whole section in one go.

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    answered  ·  AdminRoman Hardgrave (Chief of Product, Marginal Revolution University) responded

    Hi Katie,
    Thanks for the suggestion. There are two ways to do this:

    1) YouTube playlists
    If you use a YouTube playlist like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Meo0s54s1sw&list=PL-uRhZ_p-BM4SmRr1p6WZnfym2zP2O0LH&index=2
    it will continuously play. We have playlists setup for some of the courses and are in process of setting up all of them.
    2) iTunes
    We are posting videos to iTunes, which will allow you to do continuous play. We also have just the audio podcast, which combines a whole section’s videos into one podcast. We’re rolling on both the video and audio podcasts continually. You should see more up soon – let me know if you have a particular course you want first.

    Hopefully this helps!

    Roman

  2. Using MRUniversity in the Classroom

    I'm considering letting my students take your Great Economists course as extra credit, but I'm concerned that they'll get the certificates without actually doing anything. Are the exams locked until all the videos are viewed? Are the exam questions randomized so as to prevent students from sharing answers? Thanks.

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    answered  ·  AdminRoman Hardgrave (Chief of Product, Marginal Revolution University) responded

    Hi Jennifer,
    At this time we haven’t locked down the exams in the way you describe. They are more meant to be a way for students to test themselves at this point rather than a rigorous from of accreditation or anything. We might get there someday.

    Thanks for writing in and please continue sharing your feedback. We are trying to provide a valuable supplement for professors/teachers, so your feedback is greatly appreciated.

    We’re working on a teacher resource section – anything you’d like to see there?

  3. Can you make the videos easily downloadable on my iPhone/iPad?

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  4. Is there a recommended course order?

    For someone who has little background in economics, is there a recommended course order? The website appears to list the courses in an arbitrary order. Udacity categorizes courses as Beginner, Intermediate, and Advanced. Is there a similar ordering for MRU courses?

    12 votes
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    answered  ·  AdminRoman Hardgrave (Chief of Product, Marginal Revolution University) responded

    Hello,
    That’s a good question. In general we try to make all of our videos accessible to a beginner. The Everyday content is definitely the most introductory in nature – we’re working on more introductory level content.

    However, that shouldn’t discourage you from checking out the other courses such as Development Economics or Great Economists. Those are both very accessible as well.

    Thanks for your question.

  5. Make sure the Links you send for the student to register actually work!

    The Links you sent me do not work

    Des Gahan

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  6. Awesome and generous! thank you!

    Thank you so much for providing this. I RELLY appreciate your time and effort.
    This is an awesome resource and useful not only for teaching first timers, but also for a great resource for us weathered economists to pick up illustrative examples to explain to policy makers and others. I'm a huge fan.

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  7. The Links you send to Register-do not work

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  8. Money, investment, savings: the oil for economic wheels

    Direct trade is good for small, introductory examples, but real economies run on more finely grained money. Trace how money is earned, spent, saved, invested, spent some more, and grows in the process.

    Outstanding lectures so far, thank you. Please continue.

    The basics of Western economics are not taught, at least not often, to students in (still Communist) China and India, and immigrants are sometimes baffled by market manipulations, loans, leases, and so forth. Even technical young people, in computer-related industries and IT, often lack the backgrounds in basic Econ to, e.g., understand their mortgages, margin accounts at brokerages, and…

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  9. Please make sure that the information in the practice questions is correct

    Please make sure that the information in the practice questions is correct. I just tried to answer one of the practice questions on GDP and it marked my correct answer wrong. I double checked my answer in the book and I was correct and the website was wrong. This problem could cause people to learn false information. :/

    3 votes
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    answered  ·  AdminRoman Hardgrave (Chief of Product, Marginal Revolution University) responded

    Thank you for submitting your concern about the GDP practice question. We take making sure that all of our questions are correct very seriously. We have reviewed all the questions on GDP and can verify that they are all correct. If you can let me know which is the question you think is wrong, we can try address it specifically.

    There is one question, the second question in the “Splitting GDP” video, that is a bit of trick question. Maybe this is the one you are referring to. It may seem that the answer should be (e), but it is actually (d). The reason is that not all of government spending is counted in GDP; only government purchases are. For example, social security payouts are government expenses but not purchases, and these are not counted toward GDP. The video explains why this is so: GDP count goods…

  10. By sharing new Research Articles of Economics with Us

    Sharing New Research Articles related to Economics with US

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  11. Present Value - Savings, Investment Spending, and Financial System

    Firstly I would just like to say what an excellent and helpful resource you are providing!! Thank you!!
    I am currently enrolled in online college courses and taking both Micro and Macro. This site has been incredibly helpful to my learning. This week was Savings, investment Spending, and Financial System, and I am hung up on Present Value... particularly the different manners of calculating it per scenario. I watched all the videos in line with the learning and feel an expansion on this would be most helpful.
    Keep up the good work! Can't thank you enough.
    ~Alydia

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  12. https://sites.google.com/site/individualistmovement/wjfa/overview-video

    https://sites.google.com/site/individualistmovement/wjfa/overview-video

    Please watch this promotional video and let us know if M R University could use it.

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  13. Please get a graduate student to go through the comments section and clean out the inappropriate advertisements

    Please get a graduate student to go through the comments section and clean out the inappropriate advertisements. Some of my students are minors and do not want to get in trouble for exposing them to advertisements for sex workers or images of women in skimpy outfits.

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  14. State purpose of registration and use of data

    About https://www.mruniversity.com/user/register user registration:

    This website does not make clear what the advantage/purpose of the registration is. It should do so.

    Also, if you are aiming for EU users as well it should link to a data usage policy page, explaining storage times and usage of the personal data.
    See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Data_Protection_Regulation

    Regards
    Richard

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  15. You should make a video on “The Cambridge approach”

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  16. Excellent videos

    These videos are excellent and really helpful to teach and learn.

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  17. Please make a course on mathematics for economists

    Please make a course on the mathematics required for economists. As I know the theory of economics but not that good in maths. And I wish to be an economist.

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  18. This is the best Economics online tutorial ever! An absolute life saver! Cheers to the MR team!

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  19. I feel so marginalized! (which is a good thing on this web site)

    Could you in the future do a segment with a little analysis comparing the returns of rental property vs the stock market over the last 50 years? Is the rate of return of equities still higher? Would you also include the effects of tax write-offs and leverage as well? Evidently residential real estate is less volatile than equities and has a lower Sharpe ratio. Does that mean one should use leverage more freely with real estate than stocks to boost returns?

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  20. I think you are amazing. I want to meet with professor Tabarrok. May I reach the e-mail address of him ?

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