It’s not only athletic champions that are made in the off-season. Academics ones do too! With online courses growing more and more common, Harvard has released a sizable list of online courses one can audit for free. That’s right, FREE Harvard Online Classes! They even give the option of paying for the course after one has completed for a reasonable price….especially for some Harvard credits on that resume…
Here are 6 Free Online Harvard Classes to Help You Become a Learning Champion:
1. Introduction in Family Engagement in Education
6 weeks | 2-4 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Education & Teaching | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- The relationship between family engagement and improved school/student outcomes from birth through high school
- The additional benefits family engagement brings to parents, educators, and communities
- What the research shows about the importance of engaging families
Children must be taught how to think, not what to think – Margaret Mead
2. Women Making History: Ten Objects, Many Stories
6 weeks | 2-3 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Humanities | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- The many ways ordinary people have created change
- The centrality of women in American history
- How history is complex, nonlinear, and in constant conversation with the present
- How objects can embody stories of change
- How our understanding of history is shaped by which stories are told
Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence –Abigail Adams.
3. American Government: Constitutional Foundations
4 weeks | 2-4 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Social Sciences | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- The foundations of the American political culture
- How the Constitution represented the idea of “limited government”
- Why the Constitution’s framers felt it necessary to limit popular influence
- The history of federalism as a constitutional issue
- How power is divided between the federal and state governments
- What individual rights are held by today’s Americans
You are always a student, never a master. You have keep moving forward – Conrad Hall.
4. Backyard Meteorology: The Science of Weather
6 weeks | 3-5 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Science | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- The early history of World Literature
- How literary works are transformed by cultural transmission and modern recovery
- How to critically analyze literary works
- The significance of major technological advances in writing
5. Strengthening Community Health Worker Programs
6 weeks | 2-4 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Health & Medicine | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- Core concepts in community health as part of primary health systems
- Key components in the design and optimization of community health worker programs as exemplified through country case studies
- How to advocate for community health worker programs with key stakeholders
- The evidence demonstrating the impact and returns of community health workers
- How to build coalitions to support government-led programs
- How to break down silos and reduce duplicative efforts in the wider community health ecosystem
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don’t – Anatole France.
6. Exercising Leadership: Foundation Principles
4 weeks | 2-3 hrs/week | Self-Paced | Business | Introductory
What you’ll learn:
- How to identify and unbundle complex challenges
- How to understand the role of formal and informal authority
- How to identify the key perspectives of stakeholders
- How to build and renew trust relationships
- How to approach conflict
- How to implement personal strategies for surviving and thriving amidst change
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever – Mahatma Gandhi.
Check out the full list of free online Harvard class you can take today!
Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow – Anthony J. D’Angelo.
