The Pedagogical Promptbook

Call for Chapters

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. Consquently, generative AI is failing to achieve its potential to dramatically increase access to, and improve the effectiveness of, educational opportunities.

As detailed below, in this Call for Chapters authors are invited to submit chapter proposals 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 open access, 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.

Submitting a Proposal

You are encouraged to submit an optional expression of intent. These include:

• author name(s),
• the corresponding author's email, and
• the name of the practice, theory, or model that will be the focus of the proposed chapter.

Chapter proposals should include:

• author name(s),
• the corresponding author's email, and
• the section of the book appropriate for the proposed chapter,
• the name of the practice, theory, or model that is the focus of the chapter,
• references for three to five articles, chapters, or other media that describe the practice and/or empirically evaluate its effectiveness, together with a brief summary,
• a description of the iterative process the author(s) intend to use to translate the practice into a detailed prompt which generative AI systems can enact with a high degree of implementation fidelity, and
• a plan for evaluating the prompt’s reliability and effectiveness at implementing the practice with a high degree of fidelity.

Final chapters will include:

• a brief overview of the practice and the research on its effectiveness,
• a description of the iterative process the author(s) used to translate the practice into a detailed prompt,
• a description of the process used to evaluate the prompt’s reliability and effectiveness at implementing the practice with a high degree of fidelity, and the outcomes of this evaluation,
• the full text of the prompt, and
• references.

Examples of Appropriate Chapter Topics

Chapters in the Teaching and Learning section might focus on practices like:

• retrieval practice,
• peer tutoring,
• flipped classroom,
• Socratic seminar, or
• think-pair-share.

(In the collaborative learning examples above, the LLM would function as the learner’s peer.)

Chapters in the Instructional Design section might focus on:

• cognitive task analysis,
• elaboration theory,
• the ARCS model,
• backward design,
• the 4CID model, or
• the Pebble in the Pond model.

(For larger instructional design theories or models, authors may choose to focus on a single step or component of the model.)

Key Dates

Key dates include the following:

• August 1, 2025 - deadline to submit an optional expression of intent
• September 19, 2025 - deadline to submit a chapter proposal
• October 3, 2025 - invitations to submit chapters are extended
• January 30, 2026 - deadline to submit final chapters formatted using the custom Google Docs template
• March 12, 2026 - The Pedagogical Promptbook is published online, open access (CC BY)

Other Details

• Generative AI may be used in any part of the writing process, including but not limited to brainstorming, outlining, planning, summarizing research, drafting and refining, conceiving and carrying out evaluation plans (e.g., "LLM as Judge"), formatting references, etc.
• If generative AI is used in the writing process, its role should be clearly and accurately described in a footnote.
• Generative AI may not be named as a co-author regardless of the role(s) it may play in the writing process.
• Named authors are wholly responsible for all aspects of their submitted manuscripts.
• There is no word limit for chapters.
• Citations and references should follow APA 7 guidelines.
• Each chapter will receive a DOI.
• All chapters will be copyrighted by their authors and licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license, thus allowing the work to have the broadest possible impact.

Contact

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.