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J. Robert Sapp, EdD

J. Robert Sapp, EdD is the chief information officer and vice president for Information Technology at University of Maryland University College. Before serving in this position, Dr. Sapp was the assistant vice president for Learning Applications Development and Support, where his responsibilities were to lead the development, deployment, and support of WebTycho.

Dr. Sapp has been involved in education and technology for over twenty years. His areas of expertise include eLearning, instructional design, psychometrics, and advanced information systems. He holds a Doctor of Education from the University of Pennsylvania where his dissertation, "Creating and Applying Criteria to Evaluate Online Continuing Medical Education" was accepted with merit. He also holds an MS in educational technology from the Johns Hopkins University and an MA in instructional design from the University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC). 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.

Dr. Sapp is an elected member of the Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society and a member of the Technical Board of IMS Global Learning Consortium. He is also a trustee of the National Board of Fitness Examiners and the Gibson Island Country School.