Dr. Kay McLennan is the Director of Online Learning & Educational Technologies at the Tulane University School of Professional Advancement, where Kay holds the title of Sr. Professor of Practice. Kay created the Tulane SoPA Metaverse and has been creating and using virtual world learning simulations in her online economics and business studies courses since 2008. Kay uses student feedback to continually refine and expand the educational simulations she creates to use in her e-courses. She has written about online course quality enhancement and the role of online course work in an institution’s emergency management plan – see http://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ967819.pdf and https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1108744. Kay’s Prisoners’ Dilemma (https://sites.google.com/site/fvwc12mclennan) and Data Detectives Game (https://sites.google.com/site/fvc13mclennan) virtual world simulations won awards in the Federal Virtual World Challenge international contests in 2012-2013 and she continues to present and publish her applied research findings on the most effective use of virtual learning simulations in online education.