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The Ohio Learning Network has renewed its license for the CENTSS online student service audit tool (www.centss.org) for two more years. The CENTSS tool helps higher education institutions assess their development of online student services. Ohio initially piloted CENTSS in 2007 with four institutions, expanded the pilot to 12 more institutions later that year, and added six new institutions in...

Greg Sales (CEO, Seward Inc.) will present at the 54th Annual Conference of the Comparative and International Educational Society (CIES) conference (www.cies2010.msu.edu), taking place March 1-5, 2010 in Chicago, Illinois. Sales’ presentation is about modifying pre-service teacher education in Oman to reflect student-centered learning methods. The presentation reflects the conference theme of...

Minnewashta Elementary School, in the Minnetonka, Minnesota Public Schools system, has selected The First 4,000 Words vocabulary building program for its 370 1st-4th grade students, with an additional rollout planned for kindergartners and 5th graders. Minnewashta students will engage in 355 interactive and individualized web-based lessons that teach the 4,000 most frequently used English words...

Gregory Sales (President and CEO, Seward Inc.) and Hilal O. Al-Siyabi (Head of Communications, Al Zubair Corporation, Oman) won the Best Presentation Award at the Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East for their presentation, “Oman’s Online Teacher Training Project: A Case Study.” They were presented the award at the gala dinner for the 2nd Annual Forum (), which took place...

Gregory C. Sales, Ph.D., President and CEO of Seward Incorporated (www.sewardinc.com) contributed the chapter Preparing Teachers to Teach Online to the Encyclopedia of Distance Learning, 2nd Edition set for release on January 12, 2009 (). Sales also contributed the chapter Developing Online Faculty Competencies to the 1st Edition of the Encyclopedia (). The chapter contains an analysis of the...

Greg Sales (President and CEO, Seward Inc.) will present at the 2nd Annual Forum on e-Learning Excellence in the Middle East (), to take place January 26-29, 2009 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The Forum will feature speakers, discussion, and workshops for educators, researchers, and e-Learning professionals from around the world. The theme of this year’s forum is “Inspire, Innovate...

Seward Incorporated has been selected as a recipient of the University of Minnesota’s Maroon and Gold Awards for 2008. They were honored with a Maroon Award in the category of Informational Campaign for work on the Public Jobs: Private Data campaign. The advertising campaign, designed by Seward, presents tongue-in-cheek scenarios designed to build awareness about the problems of data security...

Seward Incorporated has been awarded two Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grants to develop media-rich, learning software for elementary and middle school students. The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) Office of Technology administers the SBIR Program to ensure that the nation’s small, high-tech, innovative businesses are a significant part of the federal government’s...

-The First 4,000 Words: Keys to School Success– On June 10-12, 2008, Greg Sales (President and CEO, Seward Inc.) and Jayson Richardson (Project Manager, Seward Inc.) will present a poster session about The First 4,000 Words Project at the IES Third Annual Research Conference (), a conference presenting the broadest assemblage of grant and contract recipients conducting education research funded...

On May 13, 2008, Greg Sales (President and CEO, Seward Inc.) and Ross Janssen (Director, University of Minnesota Office of Privacy and Security) will present about the Public Jobs: Private Data security training at the 2008 Secure360°™ conference (www.secure360.org), an annual conference about developing trends in risk management, physical security, governance, audit, information security...