Research Skills Courses

Agile Innovation and Problem Solving Skills

30 ratings

Solve the right problem first: define problems, gather requirements with user stories, apply Theory of Constraints and TRIZ, and test ideas in fast feedback cycles.

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

How CRISPR Is Revolutionizing Cancer Research

8 ratings

Explore how CRISPR genome editing reveals cancer-driving mutations, tumor-suppressor functions, gene interactions, and therapy responses.

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

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

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

How to Pass Your Microbiology Lab - Practical Skills

22 ratings

This playlist includes videos for AP Biology, MCAT, and NEET students, particularly for practical applications of lab skills, including stains and biochemical tests.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

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)

Career Certificate

Power Skills for Career Growth

Developed by leading Harvard faculty and brought to life with insights from award-winning celebrities including Cynthia Erivo, Amy Poehler, Michael B. Jordan and more.

• edX
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

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

Positive Psychology: Resilience Skills

7 ratings

Build resilience with cognitive strategies for thinking traps, Real-Time Resilience, deliberate breathing to manage anxiety, gratitude practice, character strengths, and active constructive responding.

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

Data Science Math Skills

12 ratings

Master the notation and algebra behind data science: set theory and Venn diagrams, sigma notation, graphing functions, derivatives, exponents and logarithms, and Bayes' theorem.

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

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)

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

Race in Science, Technology, & Medicine Series - What Is a Population? Investigating Race, Ethnicity, and Ancestry in Genomics and Clinical Research

Examines how race, ethnicity, ancestry, and population definitions shape genomic and clinical research, including the risks of treating sociocultural categories as biological causes.

• Independent
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

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