Dr. Swartz is an Ohio native (Bath Township, Ohio) who graduated from Kent State University in Speech/Telecommunications and received his Masters and Ph D from the Ohio State University in the field of Instructional Design and Technology. As a professor at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, he taught qualitative research courses to doctoral students for 15 years. Currently, he is a professor of educational psychology at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Dr. Swartz has been active in the American Educational Research Association and the Society for the Philosophy and History of Education. Research interests include neo-pragmatic foundations for qualitative research, grounded theory, and the use of technology for communication within educational environments. For the last 20 or so years he has presented at the American Educational Research Association and has published articles in journals related to Instructional Design and Technology