autoformarse

To acquire skills or knowledge on one's own, outside formal schooling — common in professional development contexts, close in meaning to the adjective autodidacta.

• Muchos programadores se autoforman con cursos en línea. — Many programmers train themselves using online courses.
• Decidió autoformarse en diseño gráfico en lugar de estudiar una carrera. — She decided to teach herself graphic design instead of studying it formally.
• Autoformarse requiere mucha disciplina sin un profesor que te guíe. — Self-training requires a lot of discipline without a teacher to guide you.

Slightly more formal/institutional-sounding than the common adjective autodidacta — autoformarse is the verb often used in professional or corporate training contexts specifically.

Often confused with formar.