Essentials of Genomics and Biomedical Informatics

This is an IsraelX-created course that is released on the edX platform. The 12-week course "will not make you a bioinformatician but will introduce the main concepts, tools, algorithms, and databases in this field." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $59 USD. The session started on January 2, 2024, and the free Audit track ends March 26.

Data Science: Machine Learning

This is a Harvard University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course will have you "learn popular machine learning algorithms, principal component analysis, and regularization by building a movie recommendation system." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, as part of Harvard's Data Science Professional Certificate Program, is available afterwards for $149 USD. The session started on January 2, 2024 and ends on June 19. Enrollment for the free Audit track ends February 27. An additional session begins on April 17.

Healthcare Analytics and Decision Making

This is a Doane University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced eight-week course is designed to help learners "[g]ain an understanding of how healthcare informatics is deployed in diverse healthcare systems around the world." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $369. (The course is also part of a Healthcare Administration MicroMasters program.) The course began January 2, 2024 and ends June 27. The free audit track expires on February 27.

Data Analytics and Visualization in Health Care

This is a Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) course that is released on the edX platform. The eight-week course is designed for students to learn how "to extract, analyze, and interpret data from patient health records, insurance claims, financial records, and more to tell a compelling and actionable story using health care data analytics." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $249. The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. The class begins on January 7, 2024 and will run until May 31. The free Audit track will close on March 3. A new session will begin on July 7.

Big Data Analytics

This is a University of Adelaide course that is released on the edX platform. The ten-week course is designed for students to "learn key technologies and techniques, including R and Apache Spark, to analyze large-scale data sets to uncover valuable business information." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. This course is also part of Adelaide's Big Data MicroMasters program. The course requires on average eight to ten hours a week of effort. Access to the class began January 2, 2024, and the free audit track is open until March 12

Cybersecurity Risk Management

This is a Rochester Institute of Technology-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "learn about the general information security risk management framework and its practices and how to identify and model information security risks and apply both qualitative and quantitative risk assessment methods." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from RIT, is available for $399 USD. The class starts January 7, 2024 and runs until March 3, when the free audit track expires. Additional sessions begin March 3 and July 7, 2024.

Computational Thinking and Big Data

This is an advanced University of Adelaide-created course that is released on the edX platform, and is part of a university MicroMasters Program. The scheduled 10-week course is designed to help learners to better "apply computational thinking in data science" using tools such as "mathematical representations, probabilistic and statistical models, dimension reduction and Bayesian models." The course is free; a certificate of completion costs $249. The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class is on-demand. The class is active, and the free audit track expires on January 01, 2024.

Building a Cybersecurity Toolkit

This is a University of Washington-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced six-week course is designed to help learners to better understand the "type of characteristics and skills needed for cybersecurity jobs and to provide a realistic outlook on what they really need to add to their 'toolkits'—a set of skills that is constantly evolving, not all technical, but fundamentally rooted in problem-solving." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. The course requires on average two to five hours a week of effort. This course started in the autumn of 2023, and the free audit track expires on December 4.

IoT Programming and Big Data

This is a Curtin University course that is released on the edX platform. The five-week course is designed for students to "learn how to apply software solutions for different systems and big data needs to your IoT designs." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $149. This course is also part of Curtin's Internet of Things MicroMasters program. The course requires on average four to six hours a week of effort. Access to the class began in July and ends December 3. The free audit track ends August 22.

Enterprise Data Management

This is an Indiana University course that is released on the edX platform. The 12-week course gives students an opportunity towards "realizing the business advantage and business potential of operational, reconciled, and big data systems as well as data assets in supporting enterprise data management strategies and enterprise data analytics." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $499. The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class starts August 15, 2023. Note the free audit track closes November 7.

Introduction to Data Science

This is an IBM-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory six-week course will have you "meet some big data science practitioners and we will get an overview of what data science is today." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from IBM, is available afterwards for $99 USD. A session is live and will run through September 30, 2023. Enrollment for the free Audit track ends August 29. Another session begins on October 1.

Cybersecurity Compliance and System Administration

This is an IBM-created course that is released on the edX platform. The four-week course is designed to help learners "Build the background needed to understand key cybersecurity compliance and industry standards." The course is free to take and requires three to four hours of focus per week. A verified certificate of completion from IBM is available afterwards for $149 USD. The session opened in the spring of 2023, with eligibility for the audit track closing July 10.

Introduction to Cybersecurity

The self-paced six-week course is designed to help learners "gain an overview of the cybersecurity landscape as well as national (USA) and international perspectives on the field." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $199. The course requires on average two to five hours a week of effort. It began in the spring of 2023, and the free audit track ends July 24, 2023.

Health Informatics Technology in Population Healthcare Analytics

This is a Doane University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced three-week course is designed to help learners to better understand "health informatics solutions that answer population health challenges." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $149. The course requires on average five to ten hours a week of effort. Additionally, "[t]his course is part of the Certified Lifestyle Medicine Executive MicroMasters program which consists of 9 courses and a capstone exam." Access to the class started in June 2023, with the free audit track closing July 3.

Health Informatics for Better and Safer Healthcare

This is an IsraelX-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "to bridge the current gaps in health informatics education and introduce the major aspects of the field to novice and advanced clinical and technical audiences." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion, via a Verified track from IsrealX, is available afterwards for $49 USD. The course stated in March 2023, with the free audit track ending April 17.

Machine Learning for Data Science and Analytics

This is a Columbia University-created course that is released on the edX platform. The self-paced five-week course is designed to help learners "develop a basic understanding of the principles of machine learning and derive practical solutions using predictive analytics." The course is free to take, requiring about seven to 10 hours per week of effort over five weeks. A Verified Certificate can be added for $99. The course started in February 2023 and ends on April 30. The free audit track expires on March 29.

Cybersecurity Fundamentals

This is a Rochester Institute of Technology-created course that is released on the edX platform. The introductory eight-week course is designed to help learners "learn cybersecurity fundamentals, including how to detect threats, protect systems and networks, and anticipate potential cyber attacks." The course is free to take. A verified certificate of completion from RIT is available afterwards for $399 USD. A session will start March 21 and end May 16. The free audit track also ends on May 16.

Data Analysis: Statistical Modeling and Computation in Applications

This is an MIT-created course that is released on the edX platform. The 16-week course is designed to help learners combine the "foundational and practical skills" of data science "with domain knowledge to ask and answer questions using real data." The course is free to take and is a part of the university's MicroMaster's program. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $300 USD. A session started January 24 and ends on May 19, 2023. The free audit track expires May 16.

Cloud Computing for Enterprises

This is a University of Maryland Global Campus (UMGC)-created course that is released on the edX platform. The eight- to 10-week course is designed to help learners "[u]nderstand the technology, best practices, and economics of cloud computing, and the rewards and risks of this rush to the cloud." The course is free to take and is a part of the university's MicroMaster's program. A verified certificate of completion is available afterwards for $299 USD. A session started January 9 and ends March 6. The free audit track also ends on March 6.

Python for Data Science

This is a UC San Diego course that is released on the edX platform. The 10-week course "that will introduce you to a collection of powerful, open-source, tools needed to analyze data and to conduct data science." The course is free to take, with a Verified Certificate of completion available for $350. (Note that the free Audit track expires November 19, 2022.) The course requires on average eight to 10 hours a week of effort. Access to the class began September 2022 and ends November 22, with the free audit track closing November 19, 2022. Another session will begin on December 6.
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