Anthropic Launches 17 Free Claude Courses, From 15-Minute Basics to 8-Hour Bedrock Training
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Updated · ZDNet · May 13
Anthropic Launches 17 Free Claude Courses, From 15-Minute Basics to 8-Hour Bedrock Training
3 articles · Updated · ZDNet · May 13
Anthropic is offering a free Claude Courses library that spans 17 video-based classes, with lessons, quizzes and certificates available through the Skilljar platform.
Course lengths run from 15 minutes to eight hours, covering Claude basics, Claude Code, subagents, API development, Model Context Protocol, Claude Cowork, and cloud deployments on Amazon Bedrock and Google Vertex AI.
A 20-minute "Introduction to subagents" course explains when to use subagents instead of the main agent, how they help manage context windows, and how to write better task specifications.
The short course did not cover monitoring subagents while they run or troubleshooting stalled tasks, but it still provided practical takeaways and a completion certificate.
Anthropic also directs users to its broader Anthropic Academy hub for documentation, guides, support articles, API resources and additional Claude learning paths.
Is Anthropic's free training a public good, or a strategic move to lock developers into its ecosystem over competitors?
With AI now excelling at coding and analysis, are these courses unintentionally accelerating the obsolescence of junior professional roles?
As Anthropic teaches users to build powerful AI agents, what stops them from creating the very security risks the company warns about?