Free Courses

An exploration of the magnetic and ambivalent character of Shylock in William Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice.

Learn salary negotiation techniques with this free, 15-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson taught by Mike Wheeler of Negotiation Mastery.

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

Study Baroque and Classical opera through Handel’s Giulio Cesare and Mozart’s Don Giovanni

This intensive course, developed by the International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR), offers a comprehensive exploration of key topics in stem cell medicine.

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

Learn how to use decision trees, the foundational algorithm for your understanding of machine learning and artificial intelligence.

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

Learn simple graphical rules that allow you to use intuitive pictures to improve study design and data analysis for causal inference.

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

Build a movie recommendation system and learn the science behind one of the most popular and successful data science techniques.

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

An exploration of the haunting figure at the heart of one of William Shakespeare’s most famous plays.

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

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

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

In Remote Work Revolution for Everyone, you will learn to excel in the virtual-work landscape. You will learn how to build trust, increase productivity, use digital tools intelligently, and remain fully aligned with your remote team.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how electricity makes the neurons in your brain tick.

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

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

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.

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

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

Learn about public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.