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      Skillshare

      Adobe Lightroom Essentials

      Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Video Editing, Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premiere, Photography, Color Theory, Image Quality, Color Matching, Adobe Creative Cloud, File Management, Editing, Data Import/Export, Cloud Storage

      Beginner · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      Coursera Instructor Network

      Product Strategy in the age of GenAI

      Skills you'll gain: Product Lifecycle Management, Product Flow Diagram, Competitive Analysis, Product Strategy, Innovation, Design Thinking, Process Flow Diagrams, Ideation, New Product Development, Customer Insights, Go To Market Strategy, Product Management, Product Development, Product Planning, Strategic Prioritization, AI Product Strategy, Market Analysis, Prototyping, Generative AI, Strategic Planning

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      Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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      Skillshare

      Adobe Lightroom Essentials Pt. 2: Organizing & Masking Tools

      Skills you'll gain: Photo Editing, Adobe Photoshop, File Management, Image Quality, Photography, Data Import/Export, Cloud Storage

      Beginner · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      Board Infinity

      Advanced Quality and Capstone Project

      Skills you'll gain: Quality Assurance, Software Quality Assurance, Test Planning, Test Case, Continuous Delivery, Continuous Integration, DevOps, Software Testing, Regression Testing, Test Execution Engine, Agile Methodology, Issue Tracking, Risk Management Framework, Automation

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      EDUCBA

      Master Digital Marketing Strategy with Case Studies

      Skills you'll gain: Campaign Management, Social Media, Content Performance Analysis, Digital Marketing, Social Media Marketing, Digital Media Strategy, Case Studies, Marketing Strategies, Strategic Marketing, Social Media Strategy, Marketing, Marketing Strategy and Techniques, Competitive Analysis, Global Marketing, Facebook, LinkedIn, Business Strategy

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      EDUCBA

      Spark and Python for Big Data with PySpark

      Skills you'll gain: PySpark, Apache Spark, MySQL, Data Pipelines, Scala Programming, Extract, Transform, Load, Customer Analysis, Apache Hadoop, Classification And Regression Tree (CART), Predictive Modeling, Applied Machine Learning, Data Processing, Advanced Analytics, Big Data, Apache Maven, Statistical Machine Learning, Unsupervised Learning, SQL, Apache, Python Programming

      Beginner · Specialization · 1 - 3 Months

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      EDUCBA

      REST Assured Java API Testing Automation

      Skills you'll gain: Cucumber (Software), Gherkin (Scripting Language), Behavior-Driven Development, Apache Maven, Restful API, Test Automation, JSON, Scalability, Application Programming Interface (API), Test Case, Test Data, Authentications, Java, Software Testing, Data Mapping

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      SkillUp

      Delivering Results with Remote Teams

      Skills you'll gain: Team Leadership, Virtual Teams, Delegation Skills, Leadership and Management, Employee Training, Professional Development, Leadership, Project Management, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Business Metrics

      Intermediate · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      EDUCBA

      Java Spring Boot - Advanced

      Skills you'll gain: Microservices, Spring Framework, Spring Boot, YAML, MongoDB, Application Deployment, NoSQL, Ajax, Software Architecture, Java, Development Environment, Scalability, Load Balancing, Data Integration, Restful API, Configuration Management, Application Performance Management, Continuous Deployment, Web Applications, Javascript and jQuery

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 3 Months

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      EDUCBA

      Master Private Equity Basics: Analyze, Structure & Apply

      Skills you'll gain: Private Equity, Negotiation, Business Valuation, Investment Management, Mergers & Acquisitions, Financial Modeling, Due Diligence, Portfolio Management, Business Strategies, Financial Analysis, Organizational Structure, Liquidation

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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      Whizlabs

      Exam Prep MLA-C01: AWS Machine Learning Engineer Assocaite

      Skills you'll gain: AWS SageMaker, MLOps (Machine Learning Operations), Feature Engineering, AI Personalization, Amazon Web Services, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML), Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud, Data Cleansing, Data Processing, Data Wrangling, Data Integrity, Machine Learning, Machine Learning Algorithms, Data Modeling, Supervised Learning, Data Mining, Random Forest Algorithm, Data Management, Unsupervised Learning

      Intermediate · Specialization · 3 - 6 Months

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      EDUCBA

      Advanced Data Visualization with Matplotlib Mastery

      Skills you'll gain: Matplotlib, Scientific Visualization, Visualization (Computer Graphics), Plot (Graphics), Statistical Visualization, Data Visualization Software, Scatter Plots, Typography, Python Programming

      Mixed · Course · 1 - 4 Weeks

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

    • Adobe Lightroom Essentials: Skillshare
    • Product Strategy in the age of GenAI: Coursera Instructor Network
    • Adobe Lightroom Essentials Pt. 2: Organizing & Masking Tools: Skillshare
    • Advanced Quality and Capstone Project: Board Infinity
    • Master Digital Marketing Strategy with Case Studies: EDUCBA
    • Spark and Python for Big Data with PySpark: EDUCBA
    • REST Assured Java API Testing Automation: EDUCBA
    • Delivering Results with Remote Teams: SkillUp
    • Java Spring Boot - Advanced: EDUCBA
    • Master Private Equity Basics: Analyze, Structure & Apply: EDUCBA

    Why Learn Instructional Design?

    Instructional design focuses on developing educational content and experiences that help people learn effectively—whether in classrooms, online platforms, or workplace training. It blends learning science, curriculum development, and digital tools to support meaningful outcomes. Learning instructional design can prepare you to create engaging learning solutions across education, business, and nonprofit sectors.

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