Research Methods Courses

Partnering with the Public and Patients in Medical Research

5 ratings

There are many benefits to partnering with patients in medical research. Yet despite much to be gained, patients and researchers often fail to meaningfully partner to advance medical science. How migh

• edX
• 5 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Introduction to Lean Six Sigma Methods

11 ratings

This course covers the fundamental principles, practices and tools of Lean Six Sigma methods that underlay modern organizational productivity approaches applied in aerospace, automotive, health care, and other sectors.

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

Quantitative Social Science Methods

1 rating

First course for incoming Harvard Government Department PhD students; also taken by students in other departments, and students elsewhere through the Harvard Extension School. Instructor: Gary King.

• YouTube
• 19 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  National Institute of Epidemiology

Health Research Fundamentals

22 ratings

Learn the fundamentals of epidemiology, biostatistics, and study design for biomedical and health research involving human participants.

• YouTube
• 8 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Quantitative Methods for Biology

20 ratings at edX

Learn introductory programming and data analysis in MATLAB, with applications to biology and medicine.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 3-5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Digital Humanities in Practice: From Research Questions to Results

18 ratings at edX

Combine literary research with data science to find answers in unexpected ways. Learn basic coding tools to help save time and draw insights from thousands of digital documents at once.

• edX
• 10 weeks, 2-3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Mass Spectrometry Analysis in Cancer Research - Winter 2023

2 ratings

Explore cutting-edge mass spectrometry techniques for cancer research, focusing on direct analysis methods and their applications in basic and translational studies.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 6 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

The Human Factors of Formal Methods - Stanford Seminar

1 rating

Exploring human-centered approaches to improve formal methods' usability in software development, addressing cognitive challenges and misconceptions to enhance adoption by non-experts.

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

Introduction to Research for Essay Writing

8 ratings

This is the last course in the Academic Writing specialization before the capstone project. By the end of this course, you will be able to complete all the steps in planning a research paper.

• Coursera
• 5 weeks, 4 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Designing for Change: Environmental Education Research and Practice.

Have you ever wondered how research in psychology, learning sciences, environmental studies, and other fields might be relevant to your environmental education work? Are you curious about where to fin

• edX
• 6 weeks, 1-2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course (Audit)

Disability Research: From Absence to Action - SMAC 2021 Session 4

A discussion of disability research and how it can move from absence to action.

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

How to Analyze Research Data - Kristin Sainani

Follow a complete research data analysis using mental health data from athletes, with practical guidance on rigor and reproducibility.

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

Stanford CS229 - Machine Learning - Summer 2019 - Kernel Methods & Support Vector Machine

Explore kernel methods and support vector machines in a lecture from a machine-learning course.

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

Stanford Seminar - Audio Research: Transformers for Applications in Audio, Speech and Music

A research seminar on using Transformer architectures for raw audio synthesis, large-scale audio understanding, and discrete latent representations.

• YouTube
• 48 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Building a Culture of Health Equity Monthly Lecture Series: Health Equity Research in the LGBTQ+ Community (RECORDING)

A lecture on health equity research in LGBTQ+ communities and strategies clinicians can use to address inequity in healthcare.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course