J. Robert Sapp
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J. Sapp
Chief Information Officer
University of Maryland University College
Adelphi, MD 20783
About Me
My Bio
Rob 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 Chief Information Officer and Vice President for Information Technology atthe University of Maryland University College. He is also an Assistant Vice President for Learning Applications Development and Support at UMUC. Included in the responsibilities associated with this position is leading the development, deployment, and support of WebTycho. Dr. Sapp 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.
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.
