Free Courses

Learn about Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, one of the first operas ever written.

Get the opportunity to see TinyML in practice. You will see examples of TinyML applications, and learn first-hand how to train these models for tiny applications such as keyword spotting, visual wake words, and gesture recognition.

This introduction to biochemistry explores the molecules of life, starting at simple building blocks and culminating in complex metabolism.

Mobilize people to tackle tough problems and build the capacity to thrive through the dangers of change

Watch an information session featuring award-winning actress and PLC alumna Uzo Aduba.

The culmination of the MicroBachelors® program.

Learn about the Earth, life, and how we can search for life elsewhere in the universe.

Learn how to create, read, update, and delete data with relational databases.

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

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

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

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

The structure, annotation, normalization, and interpretation of genome scale assays.

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

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

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

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

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

Learn to deliver high-quality primary health care at scale through national community health worker programs.

An in-depth look at the 1854 London cholera epidemic in Soho and its importance for the field of epidemiology.

Learn the significance of electrochemistry, understanding how electrical, chemical, and mechanical energy are linked.

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

Use the case study method to study China from the rise of Deng Xiaoping to the present.

Learn about Beethoven’s monumental 9th Symphony and forms of orchestral music.

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.

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

Understand how the FDA regulates pharmaceuticals and explore debates on prescription drug costs, marketing, and testing.

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?