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Instructional Design Courses

Instructional design courses can help you learn curriculum development, assessment strategies, and learner engagement techniques. You can build skills in creating effective learning experiences, utilizing multimedia resources, and evaluating instructional effectiveness. Many courses introduce tools like Articulate Storyline, Adobe Captivate, and learning management systems, which support the design and delivery of educational content.


Popular Instructional Design Courses and Certifications


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    Vanderbilt University

    Trustworthy Generative AI

    Skills you'll gain: Prompt Engineering, ChatGPT, Ideation, Verification And Validation, Responsible AI, Generative AI, Creativity, Risk Management Framework, Artificial Intelligence, Problem Solving

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    910 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Adobe

    Digital Marketing

    Skills you'll gain: Promotional Strategies, Marketing Planning, Marketing Strategy and Techniques, Digital Marketing, Adobe Express, Target Audience, Marketing Materials, Marketing Effectiveness, Marketing Automation, Customer Relationship Management, Advertising, Customer Acquisition Management, Customer Engagement, Content Creation, Generative AI Agents

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    263 reviews

    Beginner · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Deep Teaching Solutions

    Uncommon Sense Teaching

    Skills you'll gain: Lesson Planning, Critical Thinking, Classroom Management, Stress Management, Instructional Strategies, Teaching, Education and Training, Student Engagement, Blended Learning, Differentiated Instruction, Human Learning, Learning Strategies, Pedagogy, Lecturing, Course Development, Learning Theory, Digital pedagogy, Special Education, Stress First Aid, Time Management

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    Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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    Eindhoven University of Technology

    Improving Your Statistical Questions

    Skills you'll gain: Science and Research, Research Design, Research, Quantitative Research, Experimentation, Sample Size Determination, Data Sharing, Statistical Inference, Statistical Methods, Statistical Analysis, Data Synthesis, R Programming

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    112 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Rice University

    Algorithmic Thinking (Part 2)

    Skills you'll gain: Computational Thinking, Algorithms, Theoretical Computer Science, Bioinformatics, Data Structures, Big Data, Python Programming, Data Analysis, Machine Learning Algorithms, Analysis

    4.7
    Rating, 4.7 out of 5 stars
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    219 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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    Coursera

    How to design Facebook/IG Stories using Canva

    Skills you'll gain: Canva (Software), Storytelling, Content Creation, Multimedia, Design Elements And Principles, Design, Graphic and Visual Design Software, Photo Editing

    4.6
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    287 reviews

    Beginner · Guided Project · Less Than 2 Hours

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    Coursera

    HTML and CSS: Building a Single-Page Website

    Skills you'll gain: Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), Hypertext Markup Language (HTML), HTML and CSS, Web Development, Web Applications, Web Design and Development, Web Design, Front-End Web Development

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    The University of Sydney

    Blockchain Scalability and its Foundations in Distributed Systems

    Skills you'll gain: Blockchain, Distributed Computing, Security Engineering, Network Security, Scalability, Cryptography, Data Integrity, Transaction Processing, Algorithms

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    Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Georgia Institute of Technology

    Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development

    Skills you'll gain: Materials science, Experimentation, New Product Development, Laboratory Research, Product Development, Sustainable Technologies, Chemical Engineering, Process Development, Chemistry, Prototyping, Mechanical Engineering, Laboratory Techniques

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    Rating, 4.6 out of 5 stars
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    180 reviews

    Intermediate · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    Google

    The Nuts and Bolts of Machine Learning

    Skills you'll gain: Feature Engineering, Model Evaluation, Applied Machine Learning, Advanced Analytics, Analytics, Statistical Machine Learning, Machine Learning, Scikit Learn (Machine Learning Library), Unsupervised Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Workflow Management, Data Ethics, Supervised Learning, Data Preprocessing, Random Forest Algorithm, Decision Tree Learning, Verification And Validation, Python Programming, Classification Algorithms, Performance Tuning

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    Advanced · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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    EDUCBA

    .NET Core Mastery: Advanced Techniques for Exp Developers

    Skills you'll gain: Load Balancing, ASP.NET, Test Driven Development (TDD), Debugging, C# (Programming Language), Software Testing, Scalability, Performance Testing, Restful API, Unit Testing, Web Development, Microservices, .NET Framework, Object-Relational Mapping, Software Architecture, API Testing, Web Applications, Test Case, Distributed Computing, Redis

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    Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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    Commonwealth Education Trust

    Foundations of Teaching for Learning: Introduction to Student Assessment

    Skills you'll gain: Teaching, Education and Training, Curriculum Planning, Student Engagement, Instructional and Curriculum Design, Surveys, Instructional Strategies, Peer Review, Report Writing, Statistical Analysis

    4.9
    Rating, 4.9 out of 5 stars
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    1.1K reviews

    Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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In summary, here are 10 of our most popular instructional design courses

  • Trustworthy Generative AI: Vanderbilt University
  • Digital Marketing: Adobe
  • Uncommon Sense Teaching: Deep Teaching Solutions
  • Improving Your Statistical Questions: Eindhoven University of Technology
  • Algorithmic Thinking (Part 2): Rice University
  • How to design Facebook/IG Stories using Canva: Coursera
  • HTML and CSS: Building a Single-Page Website: Coursera
  • Blockchain Scalability and its Foundations in Distributed Systems: The University of Sydney
  • Introduction to High-Throughput Materials Development: Georgia Institute of Technology
  • The Nuts and Bolts of Machine Learning: Google

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