Hodhod Awarded Rothschild Chair

TSYS School computer science professor Rania Hodhod was awarded the Edwin and Florette Rothschild Chair beginning fall semester of 2022. Hodhod earned a PhD from the University of York, and in 2015 received the Faculty Writing Fellowship Award, the Graduate Faculty Award, and the Outstanding Teacher of Writing Award. In 2017 Hodhod won CSU’s Teaching and Learning Award, while in 2021 she won the Turner College’s Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award. According to Turner College Dean Deborah Kidder, “Given the growing demand for online degree programs, particularly at the graduate level, as holder of the chair Professor Hodhod will focus primarily on online learning excellence.” Hodhod’s research program complements her awards portfolio in supporting this focus. For example, her 2018 study in the International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering addresses the lack of expertise needed to educate professionals in cybersecurity. There, Hodhod and her colleagues explain how intelligent systems can play an important role to expedite cybersecurity education and training by helping novice cybersecurity instructors develop cybersecurity curricula and training programs. Next, Hodhod’s 2019 paper in the International Journal of Online and Biomedical Engineering presents an interactive course design system that assists inexperienced instructors with cybersecurity course design. This intelligent system uses visual feedback to guide the user through the design process. Additionally, her 2021 article in the Journal of Computer Information Systems examines how dynamic course goal-setting can affect students’ enterprise systems learning and career choice through a university alliance program. The study also discusses contributions to goal-setting theory and enterprise systems education and practical implications for course design and development. Lastly, Hodhod’s research appearing in a forthcoming issue of Journal of Computers in Education focuses on the use of open educational resources (OER) in course settings in order to provide a solution to increasing textbook prices.

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