Indigenous Knowledge Courses and Certifications

Introduction to Indigenous Knowledge System

Explore Indian Knowledge Systems across philosophy, education, mathematics, medicine, architecture, arts, sustainability, and cultural influence.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Aboriginal Worldviews and Education

504 ratings at Coursera

Indigenous ways of knowing can benefit all students: explore Aboriginal worldviews' cultural, spiritual and philosophical themes, the history of Aboriginal education, and contemporary professional practice.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

University of Alberta;  UiT The Arctic University of Norway

Arctic Peoples and Cultures

66 ratings at Coursera

Meet the people of the circumpolar Arctic through documentary videos on indigenous histories and assimilation, polar night, permafrost, melting sea ice, fisheries, tourism and pollution.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Australian Water School

Understanding Water Values in Indigenous Australia

Explore how Indigenous Australian knowledge, values, and rights are reshaping water planning, governance, and development across northern Australia.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Concept of Sciences In Indian Knowledge System (ભારતીય જ્ઞાન પરંપરાના વૈજ્ઞાનિક સિદ્ધાંતો)

ભારતીય જ્ઞાન પરંપરામાં ગણિત, જ્યોતિષ, ભૌતિક વિજ્ઞાન અને તકનીકના વૈજ્ઞાનિક સિદ્ધાંતોનો પરિચય.

• Swayam
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Conservation and Sustainable Development

Biodiversity protection and human development need not compete: examine protected-area histories, Indigenous knowledge, gender and power, ocean, forest and city cases, Kenyan anti-poaching, and rewilding.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Ongoing U.S. Settler Colonialism & Native Peoples Teach-Out

Examine the U.S. as an ongoing settler colonial nation through four cornerstones — elimination, property, anti-relationality, limited options — alongside Indigenous worldviews and anti-colonial futures.

• Coursera
• 7 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Indigenous Religions & Ecology

55 ratings at Coursera

Explore how Indigenous peoples of Africa, Asia, the Americas, Australia, and the Pacific link cosmovisions, ritual, and traditional environmental knowledge to decolonization, land restoration, and rights of nature.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Climate Justice: Indigenous Climate Action

Explores how Indigenous cultural burning connects climate justice with ecological stewardship and histories linking fire suppression to the suppression of Indigenous peoples.

• Coursera
• 3 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Climate change and Indigenous People and local communities

56 ratings at Coursera

Examine how climate change hits Indigenous Peoples and local communities: vulnerability assessment, coping and adaptation strategies, protocols for local climate indicators, and their role in global climate governance.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Indigenous Engagement and Partnership Development

Learn to build ethical partnerships with Indigenous communities: community-based and decolonizing research, visiting protocols, the 4 Rs, OCAP®, and Indigenous data sovereignty.

• Coursera
• 12 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Reconciliation Through Indigenous Education

72 ratings at edX

Advancing reconciliation in classrooms, organizations, and communities through the teaching and learning of Indigenous ways of knowing.

• edX
• 6 weeks, 2-4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Indian Knowledge System: Concepts and Applications in Engineering

Explore how India’s traditional knowledge shaped mathematics, astronomy, metallurgy, architecture, and engineering.

• Swayam
• 10 weeks
• Available until Oct 31, 2026
• Free Online Course

Communication and Extension for Sustainable Development

Learn creative extension, participatory communication, and advocacy methods that connect community knowledge with sustainable development and empower rural and urban communities.

• Swayam
• 15 weeks
• Available until Nov 15, 2026
• Free Online Course

IIT Guwahati;  NPTEL

Environment And Development

Explore how environmental ethics, social organization, and indigenous knowledge shape sustainable development, conservation, and local livelihoods.

• Swayam
• 12 weeks
• Available until Oct 9, 2026
• Free Online Course