Sports Science Courses

The Science of Well-Being for Teens

829 ratings at Coursera

Learn what the science of happiness says about money, grades, and social media, then practice weekly happiness homework on sleep, gratitude, mindfulness, and breathing.

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

Rocket Science for Everyone

693 ratings at Coursera

Understand how satellites reach and work in space: the three main orbit regions, why rockets are needed, satellite components, and three real satellite missions.

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

Science of Exercise

7 ratings

Explore how the body responds to exercise: metabolic pathways, cardiovascular and endocrine regulation, muscle soreness and fatigue, performance enhancing drugs, and exercise as medicine for disease prevention.

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

Computer Science: Programming with a Purpose

1386 ratings at Coursera

Learn to program in Java from scratch: variables, conditionals, loops, arrays, I/O, functions, recursion, performance analysis, and creating your own abstract data types.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 9 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

The Science and Business of Biotechnology

16 ratings at edX

Explore the latest scientific innovations in biotechnology, and novel business and financing models for commercializing them.

• edX
• 16 weeks, 10-12 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Nuclear Energy: Science, Systems and Society

8 ratings at edX

Learn how a nuclear reactor works, what the future of nuclear fusion looks like, and the numerous useful applications of nuclear radiation in four easy-to-follow modules, complemented with a chance to

• edX
• 14 weeks, 8-10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Teaching College-Level Science and Engineering

Develop skills for teaching science and engineering in higher education through course design, active learning, educational technology, and participant presentations.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

DV Lab: Documenting Science Through Video and New Media

Documentary video making as a lens on science and engineering: hands-on camera, sound and interview labs paired with readings in documentary theory and social studies of science.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Collaborative Data Science for Healthcare

Apply data science, data mining, and machine learning to electronic health records and routinely collected patient-care data.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

Photograph science and engineering subjects: control lighting, exposure, aperture, composition, and backgrounds with cameras, flatbed scanners, and smartphones, and prepare images for journal covers and grant submissions.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

Learn from an award-winning master photographer how to create stunning images of science and engineering.

• edX
• 4 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Free Certificate

Special Topics in Mechanical Engineering: The Art and Science of Boat Design

Learn traditional boat design by carving wooden half-hull models, translating forms into lines plans, and comparing vessel designs with naval architecture methods.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Making Science and Engineering Pictures: A Practical Guide to Presenting Your Work

Create effective science and engineering photographs using cameras, flatbed scanners, and mobile devices; apply lighting and composition, design journal figures, and evaluate generative AI ethics.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Probability - The Science of Uncertainty and Data

Build and analyze probabilistic models: random variables, distributions, means and variances, probabilistic calculations, inference methods, laws of large numbers, and random processes.

• MITx Online
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Philosophical Issues in Brain Science

Philosophy of mind tested against psychology and neuroscience: innate concepts, mental images, color, and whether consciousness can have a science, with guest researchers.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course