PreK-12: Artificial Intelligence for UDL (Self-Directed)
September 2, 2025 - October 2, 2025
In today’s rapidly evolving technology landscape, educators need innovative professional development to keep pace while consistently meeting the learning goals of their students. Universal Design for Learning (UDL) provides educators with research-based strategies to help all students succeed. When combined with AI, these strategies offer powerful opportunities to future-proof your teaching skills and enhance learning by making education more accessible, inclusive, and personalized.
This essential online course reveals how AI-driven tools are rapidly transforming classrooms in the form of adaptive learning platforms, tutoring systems, lesson-planning assistants, and other education tools, and how their true potential is realized when they are designed and implemented with the game-changing UDL framework.
This course introduces educators to practical ways of harnessing AI guided by the inclusive principles of UDL Guidelines 3.0—from smart prompting techniques to understanding AI literacy and accessibility—all while keeping ethical considerations and student agency at the forefront.
Get ready to discover how AI can become a powerful partner in creating dynamic and inclusive learning experiences, all at your own pace within a flexible, asynchronous format.
What you will learn
- Advanced strategies for using AI to identify and address barriers to learning, along with novel approaches to adopting AI in your classroom instruction for improved student outcomes.
- Innovative AI prompting techniques and strategies for interacting with AI as a strategic partner, enabling you to design and implement new equitable and dynamic learning experiences.
- The principles of AI accessibility and how to critically analyze the ethical considerations when deploying AI, emphasizing student agency and adherence to UDL Guidelines 3.0.
Registration
Fee: $200 per person
Enrollment includes one month of access to the course platform beginning on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, ending on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
Who should enroll?
This mini course is designed for classroom teachers, instructional designers, and other educators who are ready to apply UDL principles to real-world teaching scenarios and leverage AI tools to empower all students in expressing their knowledge and skills.
Whether you’re an experienced educator seeking to stay ahead of the curve with cutting-edge technology, or someone exploring new, accessible methods to reach every learner, this course provides the professional learning and development needed to thrive in today’s AI-powered classroom.
This online course is designed for those who prefer to explore the content at their own pace. The course is completely self-guided and includes approximately 2-3 hours of materials spread across 7 learning modules. Each module of the course varies and will include a mix of readings, multimedia, and quizzes/activities.
Enrollment includes one month access, and the materials can be completed in about two weeks.
Enrollment Window: Enrollment begins on Tuesday, September 2, 2025, and ends on Thursday, October 2, 2025.
This course is offered monthly. If this session doesn’t work for you, be sure to check out our other dates!
Please see CAST’s Course Withdrawal Policy.
Withdrawals must be submitted via email to Sarah Hocking, Director, Systems and Product Development at shocking@cast.org.
For additional information about our PreK-12 courses, classes, or customized learning opportunities, please contact our Professional Learning team, or explore the different ways CAST’s Professional Learning can help support your professional development.
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