Free Courses

This course introduces learners to Machine Learning Operations (MLOps) through the lens of TinyML (Tiny Machine Learning). Learners explore best practices to deploy, monitor, and maintain (tiny) Machine Learning models in production at scale.

A gentle introduction to programming that prepares you for subsequent courses in coding.

Find innovation opportunities in health care technology, management, consulting, or investing by examining health care cost, quality, and access.

Embark on a global journey to explore the past, present, and future of world literature.

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

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

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

Learn how the Manchus conquered the Qing and established the last of the imperial dynasties.

Explore the Maoist period of China, from the Communist Party to the death of Mao and the reopening of China.

Examine how cultures of the ancient world defined themselves through literature and how their vision of literature contributes to our understanding of civilization, culture, and literature today.

Examine how great modern writers capture the intricacies of our globalized world and how their works circulate within that world to find their own audiences.

Learn about China’s origins, its integral early thinkers, and competing states and schools of thought.

A focus on several techniques that are widely used in the analysis of high-dimensional data.

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

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

Gain critical communication skills in writing and public speaking with this introduction to American political rhetoric.

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

This introduction to moral and political philosophy is one of the most popular courses taught at Harvard College.

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

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

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.

Why should we care about Confucius? Explore ancient Chinese philosophy, ethics, and political theory to challenge your assumptions of what it means to be happy, live a meaningful life, and change the world.

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.

Top chefs and Harvard researchers explore how everyday cooking and haute cuisine can illuminate basic principles in chemistry, physics, and engineering. Learn about food molecules and how chemical reactions can affect food texture and flavor.

Learn about successful collaborations between families and educators and why they lead to improved outcomes for students and schools.

Examine the inner workings of the three branches of the U.S. Federal Government

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

Learn to use R programming to apply linear models to analyze data in life sciences.

Explore China’s imperial period, with a focus on the Song dynasty and the role of the exam system in government.

Learn the fundamentals of chemistry and energy, from the types of energy to atomic mass and matter to enthalpy and thermodynamics.