Instructional Design Courses

Cryptocurrency Engineering and Design

21 ratings

This course looks at the design of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies and how they function in practice, focusing on cryptography, game theory, and network architecture.

• MIT OpenCourseWare
• 25 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Design Thinking - Transforming Teams

14 ratings

Professor Bill Burnett of Stanford University's d. school explores how to transform teams through design thinking.

• YouTube
• 53 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Creative Design, Prototyping, and Testing

28 ratings

Turn validated ideas into products customers can evaluate: generate and select concepts, make design and architecture decisions, build wireframes and prototypes, and plan testing.

• Coursera
• 10 weeks, 1 hour a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

NPTEL;  IIT Bombay

Electronics - Advanced VLSI Design

30 ratings

Explore advanced CMOS VLSI design, from logical effort and low-power circuits to hardware description languages, automation, testing, and verification.

• YouTube
• 1 day 20 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Graphic Design Theory

29 ratings

Learn graphic design principles for using color, contrast, typography, hierarchy, grids, and space to create effective visual compositions.

• YouTube
• 3 hours 30 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Roorkee

Contemporary Architecture and Design

26 ratings

A historical survey of modernist and postmodernist architecture, linking major movements to visual design and fine arts.

• YouTube
• 22 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

NPTEL;  IIT Kharagpur

Embedded Systems Design

26 ratings

Explore embedded-system design from processor and FPGA choices through power-aware design, real-time operating systems, hardware-software partitioning, synthesis, optimization, and verification.

• YouTube
• 1 day 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Fundamentals of Graphic Design

22 ratings

Build core graphic design skills through imagemaking, typographic anatomy and typesetting, shape and color theory, and composition projects like monograms, business cards, patterns, and posters.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 2 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Ethical Design for Digital Wellbeing and Mental Health

4 ratings

Explore ethical design implications for affective technologies supporting digital wellbeing and mental health through smart materials, haptics, biofeedback, and sensory interfaces.

• YouTube
• 55 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Software Architecture & Design

3 ratings

Software Architecture and Design teaches the principles and concepts involved in the analysis and design of large software systems.

• Udacity
• 18 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Revit Tutorial for Beginners - Building Information Modeling [3D Design Course]

23 ratings

Beginner tutorial introducing Autodesk Revit for building information modeling and 3D design.

• freeCodeCamp
• 4 hours 40 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Database Systems Concepts & Design

1 rating

This course presents an example of applying a database application development methodology to a major real-world project.

• Udacity
• 7 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Design & AI - Envisioning AI-Augmented Products

3 ratings

Explores how human-centered ideation and prototyping can shape AI-augmented products and interactive AI systems.

• YouTube
• 56 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Cyber-Physical Systems Design & Analysis

17 ratings at Udacity

This course provides an introduction to cyber-physical systems with an industrial perspective.

• Udacity
• 17 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Questionnaire Design for Social Surveys

8 ratings

Design and evaluate survey questionnaires: the response process, asking sensitive factual questions, attitude scales and context effects, cognitive interviews, behavior coding, and mode-specific layout.

• Coursera
• 6 weeks, 3 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course