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Open Access Educational Tools & Resources

Complimentary Courses & Seminars

In an ongoing effort to eliminate barriers to education and strengthen our global community’s connection to UCLA, we are proud to offer UCLAxOpen.

UCLAxOpen is your gateway to free personal enrichment and professional development through UCLA Extension.

Our complimentary online courses and seminars are thoughtfully designed to offer you timely and relevant lifelong learning opportunities.

*The courses offered below are numbered 700-799. These non-credit courses do not confer academic credit or continuing education units, and will not appear on student transcripts. Learn more about course numbers.

Civil & Environmental Engineering

imageBuilding Schools That Work: Inside K–12 Construction Management
May 27
Explore how K–12 school construction projects are planned, designed, and delivered in large urban districts like LAUSD. Learn how teams manage budgets, schedules, risks, and regulatory approvals while coordinating stakeholders to successfully bring new school facilities from concept through occupancy.

College Counseling

imageUsing Creativity and Accountability to Counsel Large Student Caseloads
April 29
How is it possible to create a college-going culture for a large, diverse high school? What must be in place for students and families to embrace the college admission process? This webinar will focus on these important topics designed specifically for school counselors, college counselors, and individuals working at non-profits or CBO’s.

Computer Science & Engineering

imageBeyond RAG: Building AI Agents That Think, Plan, and Act
May 14
Agentic RAG expands traditional retrieval by enabling AI to reason, plan workflows, self‑correct, and take action, teaching participants to build autonomous, data‑grounded AI agents for real‑world tasks.
imageMarketing in the Age of AI Agents: SEO, Automation, & Strategy
June 4
Free webinar on Agentic AI shows marketers how AI agents transform SEO, discovery, and automation, with practical demos, real examples, and a preview of an upcoming AI marketing course.
imageThe Data Behind Modern AI
June 18
Discover how strong data models, exploratory analysis, and modern datastores prepare high‑quality inputs for AI, with practical skills drawn from real analytics and AI projects.
imageRunning a Local LLM: AI on Your Own Computer
July 10
An introduction to local language models, showing participants how to install, configure, and run lightweight LLMs directly on their own computers — providing privacy, control, and offline capability. We’ll explore the open-source ecosystem and demonstrate practical applications for teaching, research, and business workflows.

Design & Art

imageFinding Your Light
June 16
In this one-hour workshop focused on portraits, award-winning photographer Amanda Rowan shares how the right lighting can enhance and elevate your images, even if you’re shooting with your iPhone.

Early Childhood Education

imageSupporting Young Children’s Healing and Growth in a Time of Collective Trauma
May 18
This webinar addresses a critical challenge facing early childhood educators at this time; understanding the unique nature of collective trauma and how to support the healing and growth of young children in their care.

Writers' Program

imageWhat Human Readers Add to Script Evaluation, and How Writers Can Leverage It
May 2
Learn how aspiring writers can learn from developing script coverage--and why AI can never replace the insight of a human reader.