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Hodhod Nominated for 2024 CSU Teaching Innovation Award

TSYS School professor of computer science Rania Hodhod has been nominated by the Turner College's Awards & Scholarships Committee for the 2024 CSU Teaching Innovation Award. This award recognizes and rewards the efforts of faculty members who develop and practice innovative methodologies in pedagogy. This award showcases the creative innovations of the faculty members that facilitate enhanced learning. Hodhod's approach to teaching exemplifies the traits sought in potential winners of this award. For example, she currently employs an AI-powered auto-tracking webcam in the classroom in order to enhance the learning experiences of her online students. The camera allows Hodhod to move around the classroom while tracking her audio and zooming in and out at appropriate times, thus providing a more immersive learning experience. Next, since 2016 Hodhod has organized three study abroad trips to Japan that have promoted cultural exchange between Turner College computer science students and their counterparts in Japan. Relatedly, Hodhod has used Google Classrooms to provide a partnership between her computer science students and computer science students at Future Academy in Egypt. Using the software, students in both locations provided oral presentations to each other in an effort to enhance cultural competency across each group. These are only a few of the ways in which Hodhod has worked to create new learning strategies and methodologies that expand the boundaries of traditional computer science education. The winner of the 2024 CSU Teaching Innovation Award will be announced in April of 2024. Turner Business wishes Rania the best of luck.

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