Instructional Design Courses

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Core Java - Design Patterns

34 ratings at Coursera

Apply creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns in Java—Singleton, Adapter, Facade, Iterator, State, Command, Chain of Responsibility—plus JEE patterns for maintainable enterprise applications.

• Coursera
• 5 hours 10 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

AI-Powered Software and System Design

194 ratings at Coursera

Use LLMs to design software architectures from natural language requirements, build a database for an e-commerce platform, integrate APIs like DALL-E, and refactor with Gang of Four patterns.

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

Introduction to UX/UI Design

111 ratings at Coursera

Learn how UX and UI design work together across websites, apps, IoT and AR/VR, practice wireframing, user research and interaction design, and build a Figma prototype.

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

EDUCBA

Unreal Engine Landscape & Environment Design

1 rating

Build a top-down survival game arena in Unreal Engine: sculpt and erode terrain, layer landscape materials, scatter foliage, and finish with lighting and post-processing.

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

CU Boulder;  Siemens

Product Design for the Circular Economy

21 ratings at Coursera

Apply circular economy principles to product design: Design for the Environment, Design for R strategies, recycling and Material Recovery Facilities, biological cycles, and material selection trade-offs.

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

MOOC about MOOCs: design and develop high-quality MOOCs

Design and produce a MOOC: define intended learning outcomes and target audience, choose assessment strategies, produce video materials, and use AI to support development.

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

Smart Learning Design

Design blended learning experiences with the Smart Learning Design 25 model: break teaching into learning events, then recombine them across classroom and digital environments.

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

Innovation Through Design: Think, Make, Break, Repeat

2328 ratings at Coursera

Apply the think, make, break, repeat design process: gather user data, build prototypes and MVPs, evaluate solutions, and iterate, guided by Australian design studio case studies.

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

SUNY;  University at Buffalo

Digital Manufacturing & Design

3618 ratings at Coursera

Understand how manufacturing is shifting from paper-based to digital processes: digital design-production links, data analytics for quality and efficiency, connected supply chains, and new advanced-manufacturing careers.

• Coursera
• 2 weeks, 5 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course

Introduction to Digital Fabrication and Technical Design

6 ratings

Survey digital fabrication history and machine workflows: systems of measurement, hardware and material choices, 2D joinery built in Autodesk Slicer for Fusion 360, and prepping for vendors.

• Kadenze
• 40 hours
• Self-Paced
• Free Online Course

Figma

Create Your Design System in Figma

6 ratings

Learn to build and scale a Figma design system with reusable components, styles, variants, and shareable team libraries.

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

Robert Feranec

How to Design and Build Your Own Board - Simply and Easily

6 ratings

Learn to design a simple microcontroller board in EasyEDA, choosing components and wiring its power and LED schematic for later PCB layout.

• YouTube
• 1 hour 18 minutes
• Self-Paced
• Free Video

Career Certificate

Foundations and Advanced Practices in UX Design

17 ratings at Coursera

Learn user-centered design principles, conduct user research and usability testing, and design intuitive user interfaces and interactions for practical design challenges.

• Coursera
• 4 weeks, 10 hours a week
• Self-Paced
• Paid Course
• 3 courses

Computer Aided Design

14 ratings at Coursera

Learn CAD foundations and the 3D graphics pipeline — object description, modeling and view transformations, rendering — implement its stages in OpenGL, and model parts and assemblies in SolidWorks.

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

UX Design: An Introduction

13 ratings at Coursera

Learn UX Design fundamentals, HCI, and the user-centered design process, judge good versus bad design through case studies, and explore UX roles and career progression.

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