8 Best Performance Courses on edX
We compared 8 Performance courses currently listed on edX, priced from $50.00 to $2,021.39. 4 come from a named university or institution, including University of Canterbury, University of Cambridge and Stanford University. They are ordered by our CourseAsk score, which is built from how thoroughly each course describes what it teaches, whether it comes from a named institution, and how it compares on price — not from star ratings, which our course data does not include.
- Courses compared
- 8
- Price range
- $50.00 – $2,021.39
- Providers
- edX
- Last updated
- 30 Aug 2026
How these 8 courses were chosen
Every course below is a real, currently listed course from edX, matched to "performance" by our catalog and ordered by our CourseAsk score. Courses whose own title names the topic rank above those only tagged with it.
The grade on each entry scores how much the provider publishes about the course before you pay — the length and detail of the description, whether it lists learning outcomes and objectives — and whether a named university or institution stands behind it. A is fully documented and institution-backed; E is little more than a title and a price. Courses with almost nothing published are left ungraded rather than marked down, because an unknown course and a poor one are not the same thing.
There are no star ratings on this page — the course feeds we license do not include them, and we would rather leave a column out than fill it with a number we cannot stand behind. What we do have is price: these range from $50.00 to $2,021.39, as listed by the provider when we last updated the page.
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Performance and Motivation at Work
Offered by University of Canterbury
Learn what factors support high performance at work, including systems, processes, and interpersonal relationships, as part of the Organizational Psychology MicroMasters.
$169.00listed price -
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Capstone: Bringing it all together
Offered by University of Cambridge
Having completed the seven other courses in the MicroMasters in Writing for Performance and Entertainment Industries, this course gives you the opportunity to put it all together. The course webinar will focus on the ass...
$299.00listed price -
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Defining the String Quartet: Haydn
Offered by Stanford University
The string quartet can be defined in several ways. At the most basic level the musical term refers to the medium of four string instruments: two violins, viola, and violoncello. It can also be used to describe the collec...
$50.00listed price -
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Rust Programming
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
This Rust Programming course is designed to give you a solid foundation in Rust, a systems programming language known for its reliability and performance. You'll learn how Rust enables safe concurrency and memory managem...
$2,021.39listed price -
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Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor
Offered by Harvard University
Explore acts of storytelling in Shakespeare's Othello alongside world-class artists who interpret Othello's story in new forms and contexts today.
$149.00listed price -
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Jewish Musical Traditions of the Middle East: Musical Heritages in Arabic Music
Offered by IsraelX
Explore the musical heritage of three Middle Eastern Jewish communities—Babylon, Aleppo, and Jerusalem—through historical and musicological perspectives. Learn traditional piyyutim through hands-on practice, engaging as...
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Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson
Offered by WOBI
Discover with Dr. Whitney Johnson, an expert in management and co-founder of the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Clayton Christensen of the Harvard Business School, everything you need to know to assemble competitive and...
$309.00listed price -
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edX MOOC / Non-creditRust for DevOps
Offered by Pragmatic AI Labs
Streamline DevOps with Rust for efficient application delivery.
$449.00listed price
Best Performance Courses on edX compared
| # | Course | Provider | Offered by | Price | |
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| 1 | Performance and Motivation at Work | edX | University of Canterbury | $169.00 | View → |
| 2 | Capstone: Bringing it all together | edX | University of Cambridge | $299.00 | View → |
| 3 | Defining the String Quartet: Haydn | edX | Stanford University | $50.00 | View → |
| 4 | Rust Programming | edX | Pragmatic AI Labs | $2,021.39 | View → |
| 5 | Shakespeare’s Othello: The Moor | edX | Harvard University | $149.00 | View → |
| 6 | Jewish Musical Traditions of the Middle East: Musical Heritages in Ara... | edX | IsraelX | — | View → |
| 7 | Build an A-Team by Whitney Johnson | edX | WOBI | $309.00 | View → |
| 8 | Rust for DevOps | edX | Pragmatic AI Labs | $449.00 | View → |
Prices shown are the provider's listed price when we last updated this page. Confirm on their site before enrolling.
What the prices here tell you
The 7 priced courses on this page run from $50.00 to $2,021.39, with the middle of the range around $299.00 — a spread of $1,971.39. That is a wide gap for one subject. A higher price on this page usually reflects who is behind the course rather than how much material it contains, so it is worth opening two or three at different price points and comparing their syllabus before deciding.
Who is behind these courses
These courses come from edX. Everything on this page is sold on the one platform, so the buying experience is the same whichever you pick. 4 of these are produced by a named university or institution, including University of Canterbury, University of Cambridge and Stanford University — which usually means a fixed syllabus and a recognised certificate, rather than an individual instructor’s own course.
Before you enrol
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