Introduction
This section explores how faculty members and instructional designers might use ChatGPT to complete a complex instructional design task that requires the completion of many steps. The prompt included below combines many of the individual steps described in previous chapters. Through trial-error and feedback from ChatGPT, I was able to create a prompt that can be used to analyze a course module regarding the alignment between objectives, content, and assignments. This prompt will provide both instructional feedback and suggestions for improvement.
The prompt can be reused for each module in the course.
Initial Prompt
I am an instructional designer who helps university faculty to build courses for delivery. [Or you could also replace this last line with: “I am a university faculty working on building a course that I will be teaching”].
I would like to take a course I am working on and provide you with a list of the following components for one module at a time: the course name, the course learning objectives, module learning objectives, course readings for the module, and the complete instructions for all assignments in the module.
I would like for you to then complete the following actions:
- Analyze the language of the course level objectives to make sure they are measurable and that they include at least some higher verbs according to Blooms taxonomy.
- Analyze the language of the module level objectives to make sure they are measurable and that they are in alignment with the course level objectives.
- If there is any misalignment between the course and module level objectives, provide suggestions and feedback for improvement.
- Analyze the readings to ensure that there is alignment between the content and the module level objectives.
- Provide suggestions for additional readings that might be incorporated into the module based on the module objectives and the level of the course (e.g. undergraduate or graduate-level course). When you provide suggestions for these additional readings, I would like you to provide either open educational resources or journal articles that are accessible through a university’s library.
- Analyze the assignment instructions to ensure that there is alignment between the module objectives and the activities that are being used to assess student mastery
- Provide feedback on each assignment regarding what is good about it and if there are any revisions that could improve the activity.
- Offer suggestions for alternative assignments that could also be used to measure the module objectives. When you provide suggestions for alternative assignments, I would like for these to be activities for which students would have difficulty using ChatGPT to cheat.
- Provide feedback on the entire module regarding technology that might enhance the learning experience.
Please keep in mind that this course will be delivered in a [identify one of the following: face-to-face, hybrid, fully online] delivery modality. Let me kno