Free Courses

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

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

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

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

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

Learn how American women created, confronted, and embraced change in the 20th century while exploring ten objects from Radcliffe’s Schlesinger Library.

Keep your projects organized and produce reproducible reports using GitHub, git, Unix/Linux, and RStudio.

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

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

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

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

HKS Executive Education and Harvard's John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences present a webinar featuring Harvard faculty Martin Wattenberg and Fernanda Viégas.

Develop the skills to lead with courage and conviction through challenging times with this free, 35-minute Harvard Business School (HBS) Online lesson.

Learn about the forces in American politics that seek to influence the electorate and shift the political landscape.

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

Learn to program in TensorFlow Lite for microcontrollers so that you can write the code, and deploy your model to your very own tiny microcontroller. Before you know it, you’ll be implementing an entire TinyML application.

Happiness is within your control. Write your own ending.

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

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

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

Explore Chinese history and culture from the perspective of the individual through philosophical texts, literary works, and art.

Learn how early American politics informed the U.S. Constitution and why its promise of liberty and equality has yet to be fully realized.

Learn how to use R to implement linear regression, one of the most common statistical modeling approaches in data science.

Learn the music and cultural impact of three canonical operas from the 1800s: Les Huguenots, Das Rheingold, and Otello.

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

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

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

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

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 public policy in America and the dynamics of American politics.