Greenwood Canada

Greenwood Canada

Richmond, BC

Company Overview

Founded in 1994, Greenwood is a Canadian high-technology educational group specializing in providing quality educational software. Greenwood focuses on English as a Second Language (ESL) learning programs for students in regions such as Canada, U. S., Hong Kong, Taiwan, Japan and China.

Greenwood, based on requests from schools, has also been training ESL teachers in high-technology learning systems for overseas assignments.

Government of Canada, through the SchoolNet Digital Collection of Industry Canada, has rated Greenwood's Canadian contents as Excellent, and an overall user-friendliness as Very Good.

'One of 100 best new programs of all kinds in the world' honoured by the Japanese Government through the Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO) for Greenwood's series of interactive English educational programs.

Government of Hong Kong, through the Computers-in-School initiative of the Quality Education Program, has evaluated Greenwood's Canadian English programs and given it a Five-Star Overall Performance.

Company Information

Physical Address

Three West Centre, 914-6081 No 3 Rd
Richmond, BC V6Y 2B2
CA

Mailing Address

Three West Centre, 914-6081 No 3 Rd
Richmond, BC V6Y 2B2
CA

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Additional Details

Legal Name: Greenwood Multimedia Corporation

Number of Employees: 12

Country of Ownership:

CA

Technology Profile:

Greenwood is providing schools with an integrated web-based enterprise system in handling administrative and educational logistics.

The intranet administration component allows school administrators to achieve maximum efficiency, with many day-to- day, mundane administrative tasks relegated to the computer system.

The proven computer-assisted multimedia learning component allows teachers to lighten from repetitive chores and consequently be able to spend extra quality time with each student for additional guidance and feedback. Multimedia presentation encompasses text, voice, animation, graphics and video integrated in an interactive, coherent learning experience.

Unique Applications:

Greenwood is the leading Canadian company to have first successfully introduced an 'all-in-one' enterprise-wide educational system where administration and multimedia educational needs are addressed.

Major Clients:

Domestic and overseas primary schools, high schools, ministry of education, language schools, English teacher's training schools

Success Stories:

Greenwood award-winning products and services are used by educational bodies such as the Language Instructions for NewComers program (LINC) in Canada for new immigrants, and the Education Department of Hong Kong for their massive computer-in-school initiative.

Testimonials:

'... high quality visual and audio support... The material is interesting and well presented, with a logical progression... good reinforcement of classroom material... provides an inexpensive tool to support classroom instruction...'

  • SchoolNet Digital Collection, Industry Canada,

Government of Canada

'One of 100 best new programs of all kinds in the world'

  • Japanese External Trade Organization (JETRO),

Government of Japan

'Five Stars overall performance!'

  • Quality Education Program, Government of Hong

Kong

Distribution of Employees:

Canada

Contacts

Patrick Chun

Title: Director

Area of Responsibility: Management Executive

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Services

  • Greenwood English Language Training

NAICS Categories

Additional Information

NAICS:

541510

FSC Codes:

U000-Educational and Training Services, U008-Training/Curriculum Development

Export Experience:

China, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan

Actively Pursuing:

Malaysia