Generative AI use is spreading rapidly throughout education. Unfortunately, much of this use is uninformed by the decades of research on effective teaching, learning, and instructional design. Consequently, generative AI is failing to achieve its potential to dramatically increase access to, and improve the effectiveness of, educational opportunities.
The Pedagogical Promptbook will include chapters centered on translating evidence-based educational practices into detailed prompts which large language models can enact with a high degree of implementation fidelity ("detailed" here means the prompt may be a thousand words long or longer). The book and its chapters, which will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, will make it significantly easier for learners, teachers, and instructional designers around the globe to improve learners' outcomes by leveraging evidence-based practices at scale.
The book will have two major sections - one section for evidence-based practices related to Teaching and Learning and another section for Instructional Design theories and models.
Chapters in the book will follow a common format which includes the following sections:
Remaining key dates include:
Have a question about The Pedagogical Promptbook? Message the editor, Dr. David Wiley, on LinkedIn or via email at david dot wiley at marshall dot edu.