Priscillar McMillan · Academic portfolio

About me

Biography, skills, qualifications, experience and media for Priscillar McMillan

Scholarship in practice

About me

Connecting teaching, technology & people.

I am Priscillar Banda McMillan, an educator, instructional design practitioner, researcher, and digital transformation professional. I teach business at the University of Nevada, Reno, where I am a PhD candidate in Information Technology in Education.

For more than ten years my work has connected people, processes and technology: teaching career guidance and civic education in Zambia, training professionals across government ministries, leading research and evaluation studies, and modernizing systems for organizations in Zambia and Nevada.

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The toolkit behind the work

Skills & methods

Instructional design

ADDIE design process
Course and curriculum design
Game-based and experiential learning
Learning analytics
Accessible multimedia learning materials

Educational technology and AI

Learning management systems
Interactive learning simulations
Generative AI for learning
Digital authoring tools (Canva)
Immersive VR and AI-generated video

Teaching and assessment

University teaching (BUS 101)
Career guidance and civic education
Trainer-of-trainers facilitation
Assessment design
Structured mentorship

Research and evaluation

Monitoring and evaluation frameworks
Knowledge, Attitudes and Practices surveys
Qualitative inquiry
Statistical analysis (SPSS, STATA)
Programme evaluation

Digital transformation

Business process mapping
Workflow automation (n8n, Zapier)
Requirements analysis
Change management and training
Data governance
KPI dashboards

Qualifications

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Information Technology in Education — University of Nevada, Reno (In Progress).
Master of Business Administration (MBA) — University of Nevada, Reno.
Bachelor of Education in Special Education — University of Zambia (UNZA).

A career connecting people, processes & technology