Massachusetts Institute of Technology Courses

Career Certificate

Introductory Mechanics

Comprehensive calculus-based physics series covering kinematics, dynamics, energy, momentum, rotational dynamics, and harmonic motion. Equivalent to MIT's first-semester freshman physics course.

• edX
• 46 weeks, 10-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $196.00
• 4 courses

Career Certificate

Introductory Electricity and Magnetism

Explore electric and magnetic fields, forces, circuits, and Maxwell's Equations. Learn to calculate fields, analyze DC circuits, and understand electromagnetic radiation using multivariable calculus.

• edX
• 28 weeks, 11-13 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• $147.00
• 3 courses

Envisioning the Graduate of the Future

Embark on a collaborative and exploratory design process to reflect on the purpose of secondary school. Create a shareable artifact that conveys what you and your community believe a secondary school graduate should know and be able to do.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 2-4 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Supply Chains for Manufacturing: Inventory Analytics

Learn about effective supply chain strategies for companies that operate globally, with emphasis on how to plan and integrate supply chain components into a coordinated system. This course was formerly known as Supply Chains for Manufacturing I.

• edX
• 9 weeks, 10-12 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Manufacturing Process Control II

Learn how to control process variation, including methods to design experiments that capture process behavior and understand means to control variability.

• edX
• 8 weeks, 10-12 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Socially-Responsible Real Estate Development

Explore socially responsible real estate development, including the role of impact assessment and public consultation.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Entrepreneurial Land Redevelopment Approach: Land Readjustment

Explore land readjustment as an alternative to conventional approaches of assembling land for urbanization.

• edX
• 5 weeks, 3-5 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

100 Years of Gravitational Waves

Renowned physicist Rai Weiss is best known as one of the original creators of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO). Join him as he explores the history of this amazing project and the technology that made it a reality.

• World Science U
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Exploring the Warped Universe

On September 14, 2015, the LIGO gravitational wave detectors made the first confirmed detection of a gravitational wave. Join physicist Nergis Mavalvala as she takes you on an incredible journey from LIGO's humble beginnings to its groundbreaking discove…

• World Science U
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Chinese Language in Culture: Level 1

Learn both cultural competence and language proficiency for successful participation in Mandarin-speaking societies.

• edX
• 7 weeks, 5-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Media Literacy in the Age of Deepfakes

Students will learn about different ways to analyze emerging forms of misinformation such as “deepfake” videos, as well as how new technologies can be used to create a more just and equitable world.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

World Music: Global Rhythms

Learn to recognize, feel and play rhythms from around the world

• edX
• 5 weeks, 5-6 hours/week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Underactuated Robotics - Spring 2009

This course discusses nonlinear dynamics and control of underactuated mechanical systems, with an emphasis on machine learning methods.

• YouTube
• 1 day 4 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Becoming the Next Bill Nye: Writing and Hosting the Educational Show (January IAP 2015)

Becoming the Next Bill Nye is about using video production techniques to develop your ability to engagingly convey your passions for science, technology, engineering, and / or math.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 21 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Foundations of Computational and Systems Biology

This course is an introduction to computational biology emphasizing the fundamentals of nucleic acid and protein sequence and structural analysis.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 28 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video