John Fritz
Assoc. VP, Instructional Technology
Division of Information Technology
Engineering 101A
Education
Ph D UMBC 2016
Post-bacc Certificate UMBC 2009
Post-bacc Certificate University of Baltimore 2002
MA University of Maryland 1989
BA Columbia Union College 1985
About
Fritz is DoIT’s senior academic technology officer responsible for UMBC's focused efforts in teaching, learning and technology, including the campus' Learning Analytics Community of Practice. He is also responsible for tier 1 (basic) IT user support including knowledge management and the New Media Studio. He leads the Instructional Technology & New Media group consisting of 16 FT professional and 20 PT student staff. More info: doit.umbc.edu/itnm.
Research Interests
As a learning analytics researcher and practitioner, Fritz focuses on nudging student responsibility for learning, and identifying course designs that help. He attempts to do so by leveraging student use of technologies as a plausible proxy for engagement that can also shine light on pedagogical innovation. By looking for positive outliers in quantitative data patterns, he helps identify effective practitioners for qualitative interviews that might yield and reverse engineer effective practices in teaching and learning. In this way he attempts to find, show and tell stories in data that can inspire change. Fritz also focuses on knowledge management and user self-service as an effective approach to IT service management. For more information, see analytics.umbc.edu/publications.
Teaching Interests
Courses Taught:
- COMM 100 "Intro to Oral Communications"
- EDUC 113 "Academic Success for Lifelong Learning" (Current)
- ENGL/IS 387 "Web Content Development"
- ENGL 250 "Introduction to Shakespeare"
- ENGL 100 "English Composition"
- SCI100Y "Intro to An Honors University"