Meet Kay McLennan...

Kay McLennan has ten years of experience teaching asynchronous online economics and business studies courses at a Professor of Practice at several major universities. In addition, Dr. McLennan designed and directed an extensive 2-year online course quality improvement initiative at Tulane University's School of Continuing Studies (see article entitled "Tulane University School of Continuing Studies: Case Study in Online Quality Improvement" by Kay McLennan in the Fall 2011 edition of the Continuing Higher Education Review at https://greenspace.tulane.edu/xythoswfs/webview/_xy-375142_1).

Professor McLennan's educational background includes a Ph.D. in Education Administration, Curriculum, and Instruction from the University of Nebraska (Lincoln, Nebraska), a M.A. in Economics from the American University (Washington, D.C.), and a B.A. in Political Science and Economics from the University of Maryland (College Park, Maryland). Kay McLennan's previous work experience includes a ten year career as an economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President.

Dr. McLennan has extensive experience with different learning management systems, including Blackboard, Sakai, Moodle, Sloodle, and WebCT. In addition, Dr. McLennan has experience with the production and use of video clips and the development and use of 3D virtual world platform simulations in online instruction.

As an introduction to Dr. McLennan's e-teaching -- see "Why Study Economics?" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRirKgHQ9rQ, "Why Study Business Ethics?" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LW5kpVtsjU, "[My] Video Tour of [My Introduction to Marketing] Online Course @ the School of Continuing Studies" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icsrWExoQLE, and "Distance Learning @ the School of Continuing Studies" at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTArd5yfRnc.

As an introduction to Dr. McLennan's use of 3D virtual world simulations in online teaching -- see https://sites.google.com/site/vwexamples/ and http://tulane.edu/news/newwave/032811_virtual.cfm as well as see "Part 2 Tour of the Tulane SCS Metaverse" (built by Dr. McLennan) at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wnzjfk36EM.

As an introduction to Dr. McLennan's publications -- see "Using 3D Virtual World Models in e-Economics Instruction" at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/conference/Resource_library/proceedings/28985_10.pdf, "Selected Distance Education Disaster Planning Lessons Learned from Hurricane Katrina" at http://www.westga.edu/~distance/ojdla/winter94/mclennan94.htm, and "SCS Online Learning Student Guide" at http://www.scs.tulane.edu/online/SCS%20Online%20Learning%20Guide.pdf.