NDL 2: AI-Supported Precision Design for Neurodivergent Learners - CEU-X718

Course Description

Credit Validation for Ed3 Participants Only

This course helps educators move from individual strategies to a repeatable design process for supporting neurodivergent and physiodivergent learners, with Artificial Intelligence (AI) serving as a thinking partner at each stage. Educators learn to identify where a task or learning environment creates friction for a specific learner, analyze the cognitive demands embedded within a classroom task, make targeted adjustments that preserve rigor, and design scaffold-and-fade plans that build learner independence over time.

Throughout the course, AI serves as a pattern-spotting, analytical, and design partner by helping educators surface hypotheses for evaluation, generate differentiated materials to consider alongside professional judgment, and configure customized tools to support the intentional fading of instructional supports. By the end of the course, participants will have practiced a three-stage design cycle—Notice, Design, and Sustain—and produced a Learner Variability Snapshot, a Task Calibration Lab, and a Scaffold-and-Fade Plan grounded in an authentic classroom context.

• Notice & Analyze
• Design with Precision
• Sustain

Learner Outcomes

• Distinguish between learner strengths and task demands by using variability domains and cognitive demand types to identify classroom friction through observational rather than diagnostic language
• Analyze classroom tasks by evaluating cognitive demands with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and making targeted adjustments that reduce unnecessary strain while preserving rigor
• Design scaffold-and-fade plans with configured AI tools by identifying observable readiness signals that build neurodivergent and physiodivergent learners’ independence while maintaining educator discernment

Course Details

Number of CEUs: 0.5 Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

Continuing Education Hours: 5 hours

Who Should Attend: This course provides continuing education for Ed3 Participants.

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IMPORTANT: YOU MUST ENROLL WITH THE PARTNERED ORGANIZATION AND PAY ALL REQUIRED FEES BEFORE PURCHASING CEUs THROUGH USD.

University of San Diego – Continuing Education Units (CEUs)

The University of San Diego partners with this program to offer Continuing Education Units (CEUs) through the Credit Validation Program. To earn CEUs, participants must register for and successfully complete the coursework through the external program provider.

CEUs provide documentation of completed professional development and may be used to meet continuing education, professional development, credential, certification, or workplace requirements. Participants are responsible for confirming that CEUs meet the requirements of their employer, school district, credentialing organization, or other institution before enrolling.

Directions to Enroll for CEUs

Step 1: Register with the Partner Organization 

Complete your registration directly with the partner organization. Follow their instructions to begin the course and pay any required enrollment fees. Some courses, specifically DoWEA courses, may require participants to purchase units before the course ends; please check the enrollment window for details.

• Homepage: Ed3
• Enroll: [Ed3] AI-Supported Precision Design for Neurodivergent Learners
• Contact Ed3

​​​Please Note: USD does not provide course materials, manage instruction, or assign grades. All coursework is evaluated by the program’s instructor or coordinator.

Step 2: Complete the Course

Participate fully in the course through the partner organization and complete all required assignments, activities, and assessments.

Step 3: Register for CEUs

After confirming your registration with the partner organization and completing your program, return to the USD website.

• Locate the same course on our listings page.
• Click Add to Cart.
• Click Check Out.
• You will be prompted to either log into your USD Student Account or create one, and then pay for your CEUs.

If this course displays Request Information, it means the course is either not yet open for enrollment or enrollment has already closed. Please check the enrollment dates or contact the organization directly to ask about late enrollment or future course offerings.

Step 4: Partner Organization Submits Grades
After you finish, the partner organization will submit your final grade to USD.

Step 5: Receive Your CEU Confirmation of Completion Letter

Once your certificate has been reviewed and your CEU completion has been processed, your Confirmation of Completion Letter will be available through your USD Student Account.

This letter documents the CEU hours you earned and can be downloaded, printed, and provided to your school district, employer/HR department, credentialing organization, or other institution as proof of completion.

For instructions on accessing your letter, please see How to Access Your CEU Confirmation of Completion. 

Need Help?

For detailed information about the University of San Diego Credit Validation Program, please consult our USD Credit Validation Program Participant Guide.

Interested in university credit instead?

If you would like to purchase USD Graduate-Level Extension Credit (GLEC) instead of CEUs, which provides university credit and an official University of San Diego transcript, click here to view the GLEC option.