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The Pedagogical Promptbook
The Pedagogical Promptbook collects prompts that carry their evidence with them. Each chapter takes one established practice, reviews the research behind it, follows the authors through the iterations that turned that research into a working prompt, reports how the prompt's performance was evaluated, and then prints the full prompt and any supporting materials. That structure distinguishes it from the prompt libraries that circulate without justification: a reader can see what a prompt was tested against and how it changed, and can decide whether the evidence applies to their own course.
Chapters span instructional design and teaching practice rather than a single subject. They include embedding cognitive apprenticeship in AI agent prompts, making pedagogical intent visible during course design, a think-pair-share variant that treats a generative AI as a collaborative peer, dialogic role-play with learning theorists for pre-service teachers, a Community of Inquiry forum autograder, formative feedback systems for tutoring, grading help on handwritten mathematics, backward design for authentic assessment, the ARCS motivational model, constructive alignment through Bloom's taxonomy, peer tutoring for evaluating sources, and Gagné's conditions of learning.
What to know before using it
The book is open access under a CC BY license, which is the permissive end of the range for teaching materials: instructors may copy, adapt and use the prompts, including commercially, provided they attribute them properly. That makes it straightforward to localize a prompt for a specific course or agent setup, which the more restrictive licenses on similar collections do not allow. It is published on EdTech Books in 2026 with a PDF download and the DOI 10.59668/2340, edited by David Wiley. Because each chapter reports the evaluation design as well as the result, it also works as a model for instructors who want to test their own prompts instead of adopting someone else's judgment.
Connected Concepts
Learning Design, Prompt Engineering, Generative AI, Pedagogical Agent, Formative Assessment, Feedback, Authentic Assessment, Scaffolding, Metacognition, Community of Inquiry, Socratic Method, AI Literacy
Connected Resources
- Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt LibraryA peer-reviewed open-access collection of sixteen tested GenAI prompts, each written by a writing and rhetoric specialist to keep expert disciplinary judgment inside the prompting loop.
- The ID ToolboxMore than fifty free single-purpose browser utilities for instructional designers: scoping, estimation, caption and translation tooling, readability and consistency checks.