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TSYS School's Linqiang Ge Wins 2025 CSU Excellence in Online Teaching Award

TSYS School computer scientist Linqiang Ge was a big winner at Tuesday's 2025 CSU Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony, taking home the 2025 CSU Excellence in Online Teaching Award. This award recognizes a faculty member's strong commitment to quality online teaching and learning. The criteria for selection include demonstration of teaching, service and scholarly activities designed to advance the quality of online teaching and learning; the use of effective and innovative online teaching practices that result in student engagement, student satisfaction, and effectiveness in achieving desired learning outcomes; and an extraordinary commitment to fostering the academic success of online students through the development of rapport with individual learners in and beyond the virtual classroom. For online courses, Ge records all the lectures and posts the videos on CougarView. He arranges evening time as office hours since many online graduate students have daily jobs. Within the classes, he sets clear and consistent goals to facilitate student success. All of Ge's assignments are introduced in stages that require research and idea development before production of the actual piece begins. He always prefaces each assignment with a technical lecture that will inform students about the process and fieldwork that will encourage them to develop individual ideas to solve the problems in the assignments. Ge also redesigned course materials to be more interactive and visually stimulating. Incorporating multimedia elements, interactive simulations, and gamified learning activities helped Ge sustain student interest and participation throughout the online sessions. Moreover, he leveraged collaborative tools like Google Docs and GitHub to encourage peer-to-peer learning and collaboration on coding projects. Lastly, Ge utilized breakout rooms during live sessions to facilitate small group discussions and collaborative problem-solving exercises. By creating spaces for interaction and collaboration, he aimed to replicate the sense of camaraderie and teamwork synonymous with the traditional classroom setting.
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