Advance your career with free and low-cost online courses from MIT Open Learning

MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MITx MicroMasters offer educational materials for communication, collaboration, leadership, strategy, and more.

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By Katherine Ouellette

Learning new skills doesn’t have to break the bank. No matter which industry you work in, MIT Open Learning’s free and low-cost online courses can help set you up for career success. Improve your abilities in communication, collaboration, leadership, strategy, and more with these resources on MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MITx MicroMasters.

Communication

Whether you’re an employee in a large office or a freelancer working from home, every job requires communication. Learn how to communicate clearly and effectively, and elevate your writing skills with these courses.

• Advanced Communication for Leaders
• Communication for Managers
• Ethical Practice: Leading through Professionalism, Social Responsibility, and System Design
• How to Speak
• Management Communication for Undergraduates
• Power and Negotiation

Collaboration

Many companies now work remotely or with hybrid schedules, so effective collaboration is more important than ever. Optimize organizational workflows with these courses.

• Getting Things Implemented: Strategy, People, Performance, and Leadership
• People and Organizations
• Strategic Organizational Design
• System Dynamics: Systems Thinking and Modeling for a Complex World
• System Project Management
• You Can Innovate: User Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Leadership

In our rapidly changing world, good leaders know how to get the best results from teams with a variety of backgrounds. Hone your leadership skills with these courses.

• Building and Leading Effective Teams
• Cross-Cultural Leadership
• Gender, Power, Leadership, and the Workplace
• Leading from the Emerging Future
• Leadership Development
• Leadership Stories: Literature, Ethics, and Authority

Strategy

With the accelerated implementation of AI, organizations need innovative and flexible strategies to continue competing. Learn how business strategies can benefit from data and an organization’s most important resource — its people.

• The Analytics Edge: Available on MITx and MIT OpenCourseWare
• Bringing Worker Voices into Technology and Employment Strategies
• Data, Models, and Decisions
• Executing Strategy for Results
• Leading Profound Innovation for a More Sustainable World
• Optimization Methods in Business Analytics
• Shaping Work of the Future: Available on MITx and MIT OpenCourseWare

Take your career to the next level with a MicroMasters certificate

The job market is moving fast. The MITx MicroMasters Programs offer an affordable, accelerated path to a master’s degree. The credential is also valuable as you move through your career. Explore the five MITx MicroMasters Programs:

• Data, Economics, and Design of Policy
• Finance
• Principles of Manufacturing
• Statistics and Data Science
• Supply Chain Management

These course materials are available through MIT OpenCourseWare, MITx, and MITx MicroMasters, which are part of MIT Open Learning. OpenCourseWare offers free, online, open educational resources from more than 2,500 courses that span the MIT undergraduate and graduate curriculum. MITx offers hundreds of high-quality massive open online courses adapted from the MIT classroom for learners worldwide. The MITx MicroMasters Programs provide an affordable, accelerated, and convenient path to a master’s degree. The credential itself is also valuable for professionals as they move through their careers.