Free Courses

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

Increase your quantitative reasoning skills through a deeper understanding of probability and statistics, with the engaging “Fat Chance” approach that’s made this course a favorite among learners worldwide.

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

Learn how to face and meet today’s challenges and design a public value proposition that is both actionable and value creating.

Learn basic data visualization principles and how to apply them using ggplot2.

Learn about the development of 2D and 3D interactive games in this hands-on course, as you explore the design of games such as Super Mario Bros., Pokémon, Angry Birds, and more.

Learn how to protect children from violence, exploitation, and neglect through law, policy, and practice in a human rights framework.

Explore how entrepreneurship and innovation tackle complex social problems in emerging economies.

A human-centered approach to the fundamentals of cell biology with a focus on the power plants of the cell - mitochondria.

Explore the reunification of China under the Tang with a focus on aristocratic culture — from poetry to calligraphy to literature.

Join Harvard University instructor Pavlos Protopapas in this online course to learn how to use Python to harness and analyze data.

This free webinar from HKS Professor Matthew Bunn tours the horizon of nuclear dangers.

Build a foundation in R and learn how to wrangle, analyze, and visualize data.

Learn skills and tools that support data science and reproducible research, to ensure you can trust your own research results, reproduce them yourself, and communicate them to others.

Learn how to read William Shakespeare's plays through his biography, Elizabethan and Jacobean history, and modern performance.

This course is a variant of Harvard University's introduction to computer science, CS50, designed especially for lawyers (and law students).

Explore the archaeology, history, art, and hieroglyphs surrounding the famous Egyptian Pyramids at Giza. Learn about Old Kingdom pharaohs and elites, tombs, temples, the Sphinx, and how new technology is unlocking their secrets.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership. Gain the tools to imagine and build the future of learning.

Explore and understand your own theories of learning and leadership.

Focusing on the basics of machine learning and embedded systems, such as smartphones, this course will introduce you to the “language” of TinyML.

Discover Handel’s Messiah in this installment of First Nights, which will explore five masterpieces of western music.

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

  Demonstrate your chemistry knowledge in the final exam.  

Explore how entrepreneurs build successful businesses by moving technology from lab to market.

Explore the impact of the conquest dynasties and the world of the Ming.

Understanding the context for the Ebola outbreak: What went right, what went wrong, and how we can all do better.

An overview of divination systems, ranging from ancient Chinese bone burning to modern astrology.

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

An introduction to basic statistical concepts and R programming skills necessary for analyzing data in the life sciences.

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