A lifelong educator, Dr. Laurie Tenzer has been involved in online higher education for the past decade as both a learner and a practicing faculty member. Her intimate knowledge from both viewpoints gives her a unique perspective in this fast-changing environment. Her long experience in teaching technology in the corporate world provides a well-rounded focus in both academia and industry from which she draws and shares her knowledge. She has been a web designer for over 15 years having run two businesses that provide web development and consulting services to small businesses.

She serves as an Associate Editor for Teacher Education with Multimedia Education Resource for Online Teaching Learning (MERLOT) and as a peer reviewer for the Journal of Asynchronous Learning Networks. Dr. Tenzer also served on the international board of reviewers for Transformation in teaching: Social media strategies in higher education (2012) edited by Cheal, Coughlin & Moore. Dr. Tenzer has held positions at MIT, IBM and Bank of Hawaii. She is a member of the Sloan Consortium, HTML Writers' Guild, Association of Computing Machinery's SIGWEB and SIGGRAPH and the American Association of Computing in Education.

Dr. Tenzer has provided online learning opportunities at the Art institute of Pittsburgh - Online Division where she has taught a wide array of courses in the Web Design & Interactive Media programs. She has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at Hawaii Pacific University in HTML & Web Design, Corporate Information Systems, and general Computer Science courses in both face-to-face and online venues.