Gregory Sales, Ph.D., CEO of Seward Incorporated, is a designer and developer of technology-based learning materials.
Sales was a professor of instructional design and technology at the University of Minnesota for a decade, from 1986-1996. Prior to that he was on the faculty of the University of Cincinnati during the 1985-1986 academic year. He received his M. Ed. at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and his Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota. In 1990 he founded the company that became Seward Inc.
Early in his career, Sales was an elementary school teacher in Alaska. He taught in at North Pole, Alaska (1974-1976), in the North Star Borough School District, and in the Sitka Borough School District (1976-1983). His classroom teaching included 3 years teaching in one-room schools.
Since 1995, Sales has worked on and managed educational technology projects in the Caribbean, Asia, the Pacific, North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. These projects have addressed issues of technology integration, teacher training, and student curriculum material development.
Sales is a frequent presenter on topics related to the use of technology in education in the U.S. and developing countries. He has published two books and numerous journal articles on education technology topics.
Dempsey, John V.; Sales, Gregory (1993). Interactive Instruction and Feedback. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Educational Technology Publications. ISBN 978-0-87778-260-5.
Sales, Gregory (2002). A Quick Guide to e-Learning: a "how to" guide for organizations implementing e-learning. Andover, Minn: Expert Pub. ISBN 978-1-931945-02-8.
Articles
Graves, Michael; Sales, Gregory; Lawrenz, Frances; Robelia, Beth; Richardson, Jayson W. (April 2010). "Effects of Technology-Based Teacher Training and Teacher-Led Classroom Implementation on Learning Reading Comprehension Strategies" (PDF). Contemporary Educational Technology (Turkey) 1 (2). ISSN 1309-517X. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
Sales, Gregory (January 2010). "Can Modern E-Learning Development Follow a Process That Ensures Quality?" (PDF). Contemporary Educational Technology (Turkey) 1 (1). ISSN 1309-517X. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
Sales, Gregory; Al-Rahbi, F (2008). "Building Capacity for Oman’s Online Teacher Training: Making an International Partnership Work". Educational Technology (Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey) 48 (2). ISSN 1996-871X. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
Sales, Gregory; Al-Barwani, Thuwayba; Miske, Shirley (2008). "Prospects and challenges of an online teacher training project in Oman". International Journal of Education and Development using ICT (Barbados, West Indies) 4 (1). ISSN 1814-0556. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
Pakhomov, Serguei; Richardson, Jayson; Finholt-Daniel, Matthew; Sales, Gregory (2008). "Forced-alignment and edit-distance scoring for vocabulary tutoring applications" (PDF). Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5246. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
Janssen, Ross; Sales, Gregory (2008). "Regulatory Compliance Training: Public Jobs, Private Data" (PDF). Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Boulder, CO). Research Bulletin (8). Retrieved January 23, 2012.
Sales, Gregory (2003). "Improving Return on Investment (ROI) Through Increased Attention to the Product Lifecycle" (PDF). Journal of Interactive Instruction Development (Barbados, West Indies) 15 (1). ISSN 1040-0370. Retrieved January 6, 2012.
Sales, Gregory (1999). "Creating Effective Multimedia Instruction". Educational Media International 36 (4). ISSN 0952-3987. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
Freedman, K; Sales, Gregory (1998). "Children's use of narrative and Graphical Information in a Database: Recommendations for Development" (PDF). The Journal of Educational Computing Research 30 (4). ISSN 0888-6504. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
Jakobsdottir, S; Krey, C; Sales, Gregory (1994). "Computer Graphics: Preference by Gender in Grades 2, 4, and 6" (Abstract). The Journal of Educational Research 88 (2). doi:10.1080/00220671.1994.9944823. ISSN 0022-0671. Retrieved January 23, 2012.
