Get hands-on to get hired (or promoted!)
Start a new career or improve with instructional design courses
Your Professional Certificate of Instructional Design. Served up with a design portfolio and a network that has your back.
Current job got you feeling like yesterday’s leftovers?
As a human, you’re wired for novelty. It’s totally normal to get itchy feet and want to use your experience in a new way. But changing careers can be scary:
- You want a fulfilling career in learning design, but you don’t know where to start.
- You’re ready to get started, but the industry feels like a maze.
- You want hands-on skills, but most courses are all theory, no action.
We connect the dots. You make the leap.
Want to know the secret ingredients to a successful career change or upskill? After 20 years, we’ve got the recipe locked down.
The perfect instructional design course
You’ll start with a heavy helping of hands-on learning with a side of personalised coaching from an industry expert. This elite learning experience is served up with a valuable takeaway—access to our active alumni community—to strengthen your network and help you stay connected.
Professional learning doesn’t have to be a snoozefest
Our Professional Certificate in Learning Design isn’t like *other* professional courses. That’s because we create workplace learning that doesn’t suck. And we can teach you how.
WORD ON THE STREET
You could spend months figuring it out. Or 12 weeks doing it right
Professional Certificate in Instructional Design
Your Professional Certificate of Instructional Design. One course—served with coaching, ready-to-use templates, a design portfolio, and a network that backs you.
Professional Certificate in Instructional Design
AUD $1,990
AUD $4,496
or pay in 4 installments
Turn up the heat on your career change
- Work on real-world instructional design projects from day one
- …so you graduate with proof of your skills
- Get personalised coaching from instructional design industry pros
- …to speed up mastery and avoid rookie mistakes
- Use industry-leading tools and our proven ADDIE framework
- …our tools and workflows make you confident and job-ready
- Translate your existing skills into instructional design language
- …frame them right for an extra edge in job applications and interviews
- Build an industry network while you learn
…get the skills and the relationships to connect with job opportunities
ADDIE leads the industry in instructional design—master the model
We get it. ADDIE might sound like that high-energy friend from high school—the one who was always juggling a dozen ideas at once. But beneath the buzz, she’s all about structure, strategy, and results.
ADDIE is the proven process. The perfect blend of art and science. ADDIE is the basis of our proven instructional design course—and the building blocks of your new career.
ANALYSE
Be curious
We’ll identify key learning priorities to deliver everything you need—and nothing you don’t.
No filler, no fluff.
DESIGN
Be creative
Clarify scope, resources, time, and compliance needs—before we start cooking.
No surprises.
DEVELOP
Get pilot-ready
We build interactive, practical learning experiences that align to your goals.
Fully tested to hit the mark.
IMPLEMENT
Dive in
We’re on deck with you for roll-out with a comms strategy, delivery prep, and tech set-up.
Get pilot-ready and go -for -launch.
EVALUATE
Be reflective
We assess the program and identify what to stop, start, and keep.
Your blueprint for lasting impact.
Master our instructional design process—and showcase your work
Bring your career to a boil with bite-sized instructional design skills
Stack four microcredentials into your Professional Certificate in Instructional Design
ADDIE in Practice Analyse
Microcredential 1
-Compare learning theories
-Explore our go-to design tech
-Design for diverse learners
-Understand and use the ADDIE model
-Navigate productive client relationships
ADDIE in Practice Design
Microcredential 2
-Identify stakeholders and gather info
-Build strong partnerships
-Conduct a Learning Needs Analysis (LNA) to uncover objectives, needs, and gaps
-Turn insights into data and present
+60-minute coaching session
ADDIE in Practice Design
Microcredential 3
-Create learning programs that drive real skill development
-Choose an approach based on learner needs
-Create a custom multimodal learning blueprint with clear content, activities, and evaluation strategies
+60-minute coaching session
ADDIE in Practice Implement + Evaluate
Microcredential 4
-Prepare trainers for successful delivery
-Plan for seamless roll-out for virtual, blended, or in-person programs
-Assess data—turn findings into learning recommendations for the future
+60-minute coaching session
THIS COURSE IS FOR YOU:
- Starting your learning design career
- You’ll build a strong foundation of practical skills, work with industry-leading templates, and get hands-on experience building real world learning programs.
- Transitioning skills to learning design
- You’re a teacher or professional looking to master industry-leading tools and best practices—so you can leverage your experience and step into your new role.
- You’re ready to grow your learning design skills
- You’re a L&D consultant, training specialist, or higher ed professional—but you want more! Deepen your expertise and get your skills recognised and certified.
THIS COURSE ISN’T FOR YOU:
- Badge collectors
- This is a hands-on course offering industry-ready templates and real-world projects designed to build practical expertise—not a ‘tick and flick’ day-trip.
- Shortcut seekers
- If you’re looking for a passive learning experience, keep scrolling! Get ready to be creative, collaborative and iterative as you learn new skills.
- Status-quo keepers
- Modern learners need modern design. And you’re about to pick up the skills you need to create learning experiences that connect, engage, and drive impactful capability shifts
Create learning people lean into
At Hungry Minds, we don’t just teach instructional design. We design surprisingly good eLearning, training programs, and micro-learns. Thanks to one-to-one coaching, our work shapes learning cultures that stick. And we’ve been doing it since 2009.
This isn’t just an instructional design course. It’ll give you industry-leading templates and one-to-one expert coaching while kick-starting your practical portfolio. Which is just what you need to build your confidence and expertise.
When you learn with Hungry Minds, you’re not just gaining skills. You’re joining a community of thinkers, makers, and boundary pushers who turn complex ideas into human-centred learning.
Meet your instructional design coaches
Personalised guidance, targeted feedback and real-world insights are the icing on the cake. And it’s all yours thanks to one-on-one coaching with one of our Senior Instructional Designers.
Senior Instructional Designer
Senior Instructional Designer
Senior Instructional Designer
Senior Instructional Designer
You could spend months figuring it out. Or 12 weeks doing it right
Professional Certificate in Instructional Design
Your Professional Certificate of Instructional Design. One course—served with coaching, ready-to-use templates, a design portfolio, and a network that backs you.
Professional Certificate in Instructional Design
AUD $1,990
AUD $4,496
or pay in 4 installments
Got questions? We love that
Instructional design is the craft of creating educational programs that make learning efficient, effective and appealing. It’s a blend of art and science, where we analyse learners’ needs, design a structured learning path, and use strategies that enhance understanding and retention. Essentially, it’s the behind-the-scenes work that ensures the learning experience is impactful.
You’ll have access to the course and coaching sessions for 12 months—so you can go at your own pace. Most learners thrive with 10 hours of study per week over 12 weeks.
There are none! Whether you’re an instructional design newbie or a seasoned pro, our tools and templates have got you covered.
You’ll earn four digital-badged microcredentials that stack to form a Professional Certificate in Instructional Design.
You can showcase these credentials on your LinkedIn profile, portfolio, personal website and resume to demonstrate your professional instructional design capabilities to employers. Unlike theory-heavy courses, these credentials showcase and recognise your real-world skills and practical expertise—which is exactly what employers are looking for.
The coaching sessions are personalised—which means your coach will support you in exactly the way you need. This can look like:
- Deep dives into your work: Get the benefits of professional eyes on your work, and constructive feedback to help you grow.
- Q+A time: Have questions? Need clarity on the process and tools? We’re all ears and ideas!
- Tailored growth path: Our coaching isn’t one-size-fits-all. We’re here to push your boundaries, deepen your insights, and sharpen those consulting skills.
We keep it simple—here’s all you need for the instructional design course:
- A zippy browser (Chrome or Firefox)
- Microsoft Office (we provide all templates and guides)
Looking to create eLearning? We recommend Rise 360 from Articulate. It’s powerful and intuitive, which is why it’s one of the most popular tools for building professional courses. While a licence for Articulate 360 isn’t included in the course price, you can start with their 30-day free trial.)
We encourage you to explore additional learning tools during the program—there’s a world of innovative tech out there to discover!
You can use the ADDIE Toolkit of instructional design templates and guides forever. Feel free to make copies and tweak them to your heart’s content. Just remember, we still own the copyright, so please don’t share or sell the course or templates to anyone else.
If your team or organisation would like access to the templates, just give us a shout and we’ll whip up a tailored proposal for you.
See our licence agreement for more details.
We love this for you! Instructional Design (ID) for Teams is the perfect blend of theory, practical tools, and collaborative learning.
Of course, we can customise the templates so they’re consistent with your branding. Get in touch for a tailored quote.
Get hands-on. Get new skills. Get hired. It’s your time
Stop scrolling job boards. Earn your Professional Certificate in Instructional Design in the next 12 weeks!
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