Courses
These universities offer free online courses. These courses are offered by a number of well-known universities. Interested students can register directly for these courses. If you’re seeking knowledge on a particular topic, a free online course may be what you need. It is more likely that these will be self-paced, which means less direct guidance from an instructor.
You can choose from a variety of subject areas, including soft skills and hard skills.
In this section, we have categorized the free online courses in Public Health, American History, English Language for University Studies, and Business Administration.
Course Category
American History and Civic Engagement
Business Administration and Entrepreneurship
English as a Second Language for University Studies
Public Health and Health Services
Other Online Courses
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Implementing a Patient Safety or Quality Improvement Project (Patient Safety V)
This course is part of the Patient Safety Specialization. The course will introduce students to the unique challenges encountered when implementing, maintaining, and expanding a patient safety and quality initiative. Syllabus Learn More
Multiple Regression Analysis in Public Health
In this course, you'll extend simple regression to the prediction of a single outcome of interest on the basis of multiple variables. Along the way, you'll be introduced to a variety of methods, and you'll practice interpreting data and performing calculations on real...
Let’s talk about it: A Health and Immigration Teach Out
This Teach-Out is designed to help you have a more well-informed discussion about health and immigration. As part of this Teach-Out, you will hear the first-hand perspectives of researchers, elected officials, healthcare systems, business leaders, and community...
Mathematical Biostatistics Boot Camp 2
Learn fundamental concepts in data analysis and statistical inference, focusing on one and two independent samples. Syllabus Learn More
Mastering Software Development in R Capstone
R Programming Capstone Syllabus Learn More
Public Health Perspectives on Sustainable Diets
This course is offered by the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future and draws from our graduate-level food systems curriculum at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. Syllabus Learn More
Health Information Technology Fundamentals
In this course you will receive an overview of the health IT ecosystem with a specific focus on the role of electronic health records (EHRs). You’ll be introduced to the factors that contributed to the move from paper records to digitized records and who the most...
Evidence-based Toxicology
Welcome to the Evidence-based Toxicology (EBT) course. In medicine and healthcare, evidence-based medicine has revolutionized the way that information is evaluated transparently and objectively. Over the past ten years, a movement in North America and Europe has...
Design and Interpretation of Clinical Trials
The course will explain the basic principles for design of randomized clinical trials and how they should be reported. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to terminology used in clinical trials and the several common designs used for clinical...
Building Data Visualization Tools
This course provides you with the skills for creating those new visualization building blocks. We focus on the ggplot2 framework and describe how to use and extend the system to suit the specific needs of your organization or team. Syllabus Learn More
Getting Started with Data Visualization in R
Data visualization is a critical skill for anyone that routinely using quantitative data in his or her work - which is to say that data visualization is a tool that almost every worker needs today. One of the critical tools for data visualization today is the R...
Introduction to Neurohacking In R
Neurohacking describes how to use the R programming language (https://cran.r-project.org/) and its associated package to perform manipulation, processing, and analysis of neuroimaging data. We focus on publicly-available structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)....