- “AI-Assisted Faculty.” Chapter 5. Bowen, José Antonio, and C. Edward Watson. 2024. Teaching with AI: A Practical Guide to a New Era of Human Learning. Johns Hopkins University Press. 81–105. (Read online via the library website, or listen to the audiobook. Both require your VT login).
- Outlines practical ways faculty can use AI to support course design, grading, feedback, and engagement. Bowen and Watson emphasize responsible use and offer scenarios and sample prompts to help instructors integrate AI effectively and ethically.
- Gooden, Christina. 2024. “TRACED: A Framework for Prompt Engineering for Generative AI in Education.” LinkedIn, December. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/trace-framework-prompt-engineering-generative-ai-education-gooden/.
- Introduces the TRACE framework for prompt engineering in education, emphasizing five key principles (Task, Role, Audience, Context, and Expectations) to help instructors design purposeful and pedagogically-sound AI prompts.
- Harvard University Information Technology. 2023. “Getting Started with Prompts for Text-Based Generative AI Tools.” August 30. https://www.huit.harvard.edu/news/ai-prompts.
- Provides categorized examples of AI prompts for teaching, learning, and productivity—designed to help educators experiment with generative AI across a range of academic and administrative tasks.
- MIT Sloan Teaching & Learning Technologies. 2025. “Effective Prompts for AI: The Essentials.” May 30. https://mitsloanedtech.mit.edu/ai/basics/effective-prompts/.
- Offers best practices for writing effective AI prompts in educational settings, with practical tips and examples that support clarity, specificity, and pedagogical alignment.
- Mollick, Ethan. 2025. “A Guide to Prompting AI (for What It Is Worth).” June 23. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/a-guide-to-prompting-ai-for-what.
- Explains how to craft prompts that guide AI to reason, critique, and reflect, moving beyond simple answers to support higher-order thinking and complex writing tasks.
- Mollick, Ethan. 2025. “Now Is the Time for Grimoires.” Substack newsletter. One Useful Thing, June 23. https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/now-is-the-time-for-grimoires.
- Suggests that educators create and share AI “grimoires”—collections of prompts and strategies tailored to specific disciplines—to support more effective, collaborative use of generative AI in teaching and learning.
- Saravia, Elvis. 2022. Prompt Engineering Guide. DAIR.AI. https://www.promptingguide.ai/.
- A free, community-built resource that introduces key prompting concepts, techniques, and examples, all designed to help users at all levels improve how they interact with generative AI tools.
- Speltz, Emily Dux, and Abram Anders. 2024. “Applying Advanced Generative AI Prompting Techniques.” In TextGenEd: Continuing Experiments, edited by Carly Schnitzler, Annette Vee, and Tim Laquintano. The WAC Clearinghouse. https://wac.colostate.edu/repository/collections/continuing-experiments/january-2024/prompt-engineering/applying-advanced-generative-ai-prompting-techniques/.
- Draws on real classroom examples to explain how advanced prompting strategies—like role-based prompts and chain-of-thought reasoning—can deepen student learning and support writing instruction with generative AI.
Last Updated on July 22, 2025