Reinforcement Learning Foundations
Free Intermediate course · 10 lessons · 3 weeks · Certificate on completion
Understand agents, rewards and policies, and train your first RL agents from scratch. Across 10 lessons you'll move from fundamentals to a portfolio-ready outcome — at your own pace, with quizzes after each lesson and a final exam to certify your mastery.
What you'll learn
- Agents, environments and rewards
- Markov decision processes
- Dynamic programming and value iteration
- Monte Carlo methods
- Temporal-difference learning
- Q-learning and SARSA
Skills you'll pick up
- Agents, environments and rewar
- Markov decision processes
- Dynamic programming and value
- Monte Carlo methods
- Temporal-difference learning
- Q-learning and SARSA
Tools covered
- Reinforcement Learning
- Real-world projects
- Quizzes
- Final exam
Course modules
Module 1: Agents, environments and rewards
Module 1 of Reinforcement Learning Foundations. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 2: Monte Carlo methods
Module 2 of Reinforcement Learning Foundations. 3 lessons · 3h
Module 3: Exploration vs exploitation
Module 3 of Reinforcement Learning Foundations. 2 lessons · 2h
Module 4: Gymnasium environments in practice
Module 4 of Reinforcement Learning Foundations. 2 lessons · 2h
Lessons in this course
- Agents, environments and rewards
- Markov decision processes
- Dynamic programming and value iteration
- Monte Carlo methods
- Temporal-difference learning
- Q-learning and SARSA
- Exploration vs exploitation
- Function approximation
- Gymnasium environments in practice
- Debugging a learning agent
Instructor
Marcus Reid — Machine Learning Engineer
Marcus Reid is a Machine Learning Engineer with years of hands-on experience teaching Reinforcement Learning to thousands of learners worldwide.
Certificate
Finish every lesson and pass the final exam to earn a free, verifiable Learnera certificate for Reinforcement Learning Foundations. It can be downloaded as a PDF and shared on LinkedIn.
Career outcomes
Median global salary $140,000 per year · median India salary ₹19,60,000 per year · 72,989 open roles worldwide
- Reinforcement Learning Specialist
- Senior Reinforcement Learning Lead
- Reinforcement Learning Consultant
Frequently asked questions
Is the Reinforcement Learning Foundations course free?
Yes. Every Learnera course, including Reinforcement Learning Foundations, is completely free — lessons, quizzes, the final exam, and the certificate.
How long does Reinforcement Learning Foundations take?
10 lessons, typically completed in 3 weeks at a comfortable pace.
Do I get a certificate?
Yes — pass the final exam and you receive a free, verifiable certificate you can share on LinkedIn.