Curated by Richard Ewing

The AI Learning Path.

Anthropic just released 15 free courses through their Academy. I've curated them by audience with my editorial commentary on which ones matter — and why.

All courses are free, self-paced, and include completion certificates. No Anthropic account required — just a free Skilljar login.

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Free Courses
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Learning Tracks
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Total Cost
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Certificates Included
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For Leaders

Build AI fluency for strategic decision-making. No coding required.

Claude 101

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Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks, understand core features, and explore resources for advanced learning.

Richard's Take: Start here. Every technology leader should understand what Claude can and cannot do before making procurement or build decisions.

AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations

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Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely.

Richard's Take: The best single course for board directors and C-suite executives. Covers the ethical and safety considerations that matter in governance conversations.

Introduction to Claude Cowork

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Learn to work alongside Claude on your real files and projects with the Cowork task loop, plugins, and multi-step workflows.

Richard's Take: Hands-on course for leaders who want to use Claude as a daily productivity tool — not just understand it theoretically.
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For Builders

Integrate Claude into your development workflow. Ship AI-powered features.

Building with the Claude API

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Comprehensive course covering API requests, prompt design, and integrating Claude with external services.

Richard's Take: Essential for any developer building AI features. Pair this with my AUEB calculator to validate your unit economics before you ship.

Claude Code in Action

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Integrate Claude Code into your development workflow — read files, run commands, edit code, and automate tasks.

Richard's Take: The practical "get things done" course. If your team uses Claude Code, this is required training.

Introduction to Agent Skills

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Build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code — reusable markdown instructions that Claude applies to the right tasks.

Richard's Take: Skills are how you scale AI productivity across a team. This eliminates the "everyone prompts differently" problem.

Introduction to Subagents

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Use and create sub-agents in Claude Code to manage context, delegate tasks, and build specialized workflows.

Richard's Take: Advanced but critical for complex codebases. Subagents keep main conversations clean while delegating specialized work.
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For Architects

Design production AI systems. MCP, cloud integrations, and infrastructure.

Introduction to Model Context Protocol

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Build MCP servers and clients from scratch using Python. Master tools, resources, and prompts to connect Claude with external services.

Richard's Take: MCP is the emerging standard for AI-to-tool communication. Exogram uses MCP for its verification infrastructure. This is the foundation course.

MCP: Advanced Topics

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Advanced implementation patterns including sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport mechanisms.

Richard's Take: Take this after the intro. Production MCP deployments require understanding sampling and transport — this covers both.

Claude with Amazon Bedrock

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Full training for working with Anthropic models through AWS Bedrock — originally created as an AWS accreditation program.

Richard's Take: If your infrastructure runs on AWS, this is how you deploy Claude at enterprise scale.

Claude with Google Cloud Vertex AI

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Comprehensive course covering working with Anthropic models through Google Cloud's Vertex AI.

Richard's Take: The GCP equivalent of the Bedrock course. Choose based on your cloud provider.
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For Educators & Nonprofits

Bring AI fluency into classrooms, teams, and organizations.

AI Fluency for Educators

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Empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply AI Fluency in teaching and institutional strategy.

Richard's Take: If you're responsible for upskilling a team, this is the course to take first — then use it as a template for your own training programs.

Teaching AI Fluency

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Empowers academic faculty, instructional designers, and others to teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.

Richard's Take: The "train the trainer" course. For organizations building internal AI education programs.

AI Fluency for Students

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Develop AI Fluency skills that enhance learning, career planning, and academic success through responsible AI collaboration.

Richard's Take: Recommend to junior engineers and new graduates. Sets the right foundation for AI-augmented work.

AI Fluency for Nonprofits

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Develop AI fluency to increase organizational impact and efficiency while staying true to mission and values.

Richard's Take: Purpose-built for mission-driven organizations. Covers the ethical considerations unique to nonprofit AI adoption.
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After the Courses

Courses teach you AI. I teach you the economics.

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