Anthropic Academy

Thanks to a reddit post on r/ClaudeAI, I just learned about Anthropic Academy.

Basically, Anthropic publishes a few professional-level free courses on the Skilljar LMS. Each course is extremely well put together. Currently, the offerings include:

• Claude Code in Action: Integrate Claude Code into your development workflow
• Claude 101: Learn how to use Claude for everyday work tasks, understand core features, and explore resources; for more advanced learning on other topics.
• AI Fluency: Framework & Foundations: Learn to collaborate with AI systems effectively, efficiently, ethically, and safely
• Building with the Claude API: This comprehensive course covers the full spectrum of working with Anthropic models using the Claude API
• Introduction to Model Context Protocol: Learn to build Model Context Protocol servers and clients from scratch using Python. Master MCP's three core primitives (tools, resources, and prompts) to connect Claude with external services
• AI Fluency for educators: This course empowers faculty, instructional designers, and educational leaders to apply AI Fluency into their own teaching practice and institutional strategy.
• AI Fluency for students: This course empowers students to develop AI Fluency skills that enhance learning, career planning, and academic success through responsible AI collaboration.
• Model Context Protocol: Advanced Topics: Discover advanced Model Context Protocol implementation patterns including sampling, notifications, file system access, and transport mechanisms for production MCP server development.
• Claude with Amazon Bedrock and Claude with Google Cloud's Vertex AI: Self-explanatory.
• Teaching AI Fluency: This course empowers academic faculty, instructional designers, and others to teach and assess AI Fluency in instructor-led settings.
• AI Fluency for nonprofits: This course empowers nonprofit professionals to develop AI fluency in order to increase organizational impact and efficiency while staying true to their mission and values.
• Introduction to agent skills: Learn how to build, configure, and share Skills in Claude Code — reusable markdown instructions that Claude automatically applies to the right tasks at the right time. This course takes you from creating your first Skill to distributing them across teams and troubleshooting common issues.

In hindsight the "Learning" dropdown is right there on the Anthropic homepage, so I should have encountered this before. Good reminder to spend some time crawling through the websites of the tools you use frequently, you never know when something may have dropped silently or missed your radar.

It took thirty seconds to register for an account. The content is a mix of text guides and hands-on demo videos. I haven't run into a section where there is a video and no supplementary text, which is nice. Each course also has knowledge checks in the form of a list of questions near the end.

I'll go through and complete a few of these. Worst case I have something other than a podcast to listen to in the background while doing something else, best case I learn something and get to feel reasonably confident commenting on its efficacy when I'm next doing an AI training.