SS Teaching Strategies: Innovative Methods & Techniques

SS Teaching Strategies

Productive Friction: What Universities Must Protect in the Age of AI

One of the readings that my students always pick as their favorite lesson about digital media economics comes from the late 1990s when Google engineers accidentally found gold in their trash. When they launched their search engine, it was working perfectl

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Four Questions to Ask Before You Grade This Fall

Sometime in late September, nearly every instructor meets the same moment. A submission arrives that is fluent, organized, grammatically clean—and strangely weightless. The question that rises first is the obvious one: did the stu

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Choosing the Right Level of Collaboration: Adapting Collaborative Syllabus Design to Different Teaching Contexts

Collaborative syllabus design is gaining momentum in higher education, but many instructors still hesitate to move beyond a traditionally designed syllabus (Jafar 2016; Hanna-Benson et al. 2020). Concerns about maintaining academic rigor, instru

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No Need to Recite the Entire Syllabus: Make Day One a Memorable Learning Experience

It’s hard to believe summer is over, but here we are: the first day of class. Twenty minutes in, by the time the professor reached the late work policy, the words had already started to blur.  Attendance. Office hours. Academic integri

logo.png  By SS  Sep 4, 2026