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J. Robert SappJ. Robert SappBiographyRob Sapp has been involved in education and technology for over 20 years. His areas of expertise include eLearning, instructional design, psychometrics and statistics. Dr. Sapp is the Vice President of Learning Technologies for Laureate Education, Inc., where he oversees the development and deployment of online learning systems for over 40 Colleges and Universities worldwide. Previously, Dr. Sapp was the Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology at the University of Maryland University College. He is also a Trustee with the National Board of Fitness Examiners. Much of his career was spent at Johns Hopkins Medicine, where he directed the Department of Advanced Technologies and Information Services. Dr. Sapp was also a faculty member of the School of Medicine Division of Biomedical Information Sciences. While at Hopkins Med, he co-founded the Center for Distributed Medical Education, an organization designed to extend the instructional knowledgebase of Johns Hopkins worldwide. More recently, he was the Chief Information Officer for Excentia, Inc., an eLearning and content development company that distributed curricular content from the Nation's top business schools and marketed it to large law firms and Fortune 500 companies. In this role, he was responsible for creating a comprehensive eLearning platform including a Learning Management System, content development and deployment resources, and performance support tools. He has also been the Chief Information Officer for Fitness Today, Inc., an information services firm dedicated to providing continuing professional education, electronic resources, and products to allied health professionals. Rob Sapp holds a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania where his dissertation, "Creating and Applying Criteria to Evaluate Online Continuing Education" was accepted with merit. He also holds a MA in Instructional Design from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC) and a MS in Educational Technology from the Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Sapp's undergraduate work was English, also at UMBC. PublicationsInterestsMembership InformationGeneral InfoThis information is provided as a service for our members and subscribers. It gives members and subscribers the opportunity to share information about common problems and solutions and a chance to network with their peers. Neither members nor nonmembers are to use it for commercial gain or for research that is not explicitly sponsored by EDUCAUSE. EDUCAUSE maintains open access to this information with the expectation that it will not be abused. We appreciate your help in using this information properly so that we do not have to limit its availability. If you have questions about the use of this information or you want your personal information or photo removed, you may either e-mail info@educause.edu or login to make changes. |
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