Free Courses

Perform RNA-Seq, ChIP-Seq, and DNA methylation data analyses, using open source software, including R and Bioconductor.

Learn how a Culture of Health can transform your business by integrating worker, customer, community, and environmental well-being for sustainable success.

Study Japanese scroll art as text and as "little movies" that immerse the viewer through visual narration. 

The Introduction to Nonprofit Accounting and Financial Statements webinars provide a great opportunity to learn the basic principles of nonprofit accounting.

Discover what makes your brain tick in this third course in our introductory series in neuroscience.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

Learn to forecast the weather just by looking out your window.

Explore the roles that microbes play in the production, preservation, and enhancement of diverse foods in a variety of culinary traditions, and learn about the history of food fermentations.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Explore the birth of modern China with a focus on the time between the fall of the Qing and the end of World War II.

Explore how genomic patterns help us understand infectious disease transmission.

Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare’s Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello’s story in new forms and contexts today.

Show what you’ve learned from the Professional Certificate Program in Data Science.

Learn to process and convert raw data into formats needed for analysis.  

Learn the skills and tools of improvement science to make positive changes in health, healthcare, and your daily life.

Learn the principles guiding humanitarian response to modern emergencies, and the challenges faced in the field today.

This is CS50’s introduction to computer science and tech literacy for business professionals.

Traces Albert Einstein’s engagement with relativity, quantum mechanics, Nazism, nuclear weapons, philosophy, the arts, and technology.

Learn probability theory — essential for a data scientist — using a case study on the financial crisis of 2007–2008.

Learn fundamental principles of architecture — as an academic subject or a professional career — by studying some of history’s most important buildings.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how traditional and modernist cooking techniques can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about elasticity, viscosity, mayonnaise, baking, and more!

Learn to use machine learning in Python in this introductory course on artificial intelligence.

Learn how to protect your own data, devices, and systems from today's threats.

Learn about Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique, an iconic Romantic symphony that ushered in an era of narrative “program music.”

Examine best practices in child and family policies, advocacy, financing, and pathways to scale.

Expand your learning of chemistry and thermodynamics by exploring entropy, free energy, and equilibrium.

Learn what is involved in using data wisely to build a culture of collaborative inquiry. 

An overview of modern Chinese history, including the fall of the Qing and the end of imperial China.