Free Education & Professional Courses

In this complete, 12-lecture video course from Harvard University, Professor Michael Sandel presents his popular course which explores difficult moral dilemmas and how we respond to them.

This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines.

In this course taught by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Robert Olen Butler, you will learn how to write a short story from the ground up, starting from the germ of an idea to a finished manuscript.

Encompasses the increasingly important areas of viral, bacterial, and parasitic diseases and understanding the complex interaction between humans and infectious agents.

The basic thesis of the course is that all viruses adopt a common strategy.

Stanford Mini Med School is a series arranged and directed by Stanford's School of Medicine, and presented by the Stanford Continuing Studies program.

Taught by Jim Newton, editor-at-large of the Los Angeles Times, this course is an intensive examination of ethical and policy issues arising from interaction of media institutions and societal institutions…

Can law change human behavior to be less environmentally damaging?

The course covers basic concepts of biomedical engineering and their connection with the spectrum of human activity.

This semester treats simple and complex reaction mechanisms, spectroscopy, organic synthesis, and some molecules of nature.