Dr. Badrul H. Khan is associate professor of education and director of the Educational Technology Leadership graduate cohort program at The George Washington University. He is founder of BooksToRead.com,
a recommended readings site on the Internet. Previously, he was an assistant professor of education and
founding director of the educational technology graduate program at the University of Texas at Brownsville.
He also served as an instructional developer and evaluation specialist in the School of Medicine at
Indiana University, Indianapolis. He earned a BA in chemistry and a PhD in instructional systems technology from Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.
While growing up in Chittagong, Bangladesh during the 1970s, Dr. Khan used to
dream about having access to the well-designed learning resources available
only to students in industrial countries. In the ’70s it was unthinkable to have
equal access to those resources. In the ’90s, with the emergence of the World
Wide Web, Khan’s dream of equal access to quality learning resources became
a reality. His desire for broadly available distributed learning systems and his
scholarly grounding in the field of educational systems design and technology
have enabled him to present a total vision for educational and training possibilities
of the new worldwide communications technologies.
Through his teaching and publishing, Dr. Khan has been instrumental in creating
a coherent framework for Web-based instruction, training, and learning. In his
first book, Web-Based Instruction (Educational Technology Publications, 1997),
he took a leadership role in defining the critical dimensions of this new field of
inquiry and practice at all levels of education. Reflecting its enormous acceptance worldwide, Web-Based Instruction has become a bestseller and has been
adopted by colleges and universities worldwide. His second book Web-Based
Training (Educational Technology Publications, 2001) is a landmark book that
covers all aspects of Internet’s World Wide Web for training at all levels.
He continues to advance the discourse in the field of distance learning. His
contribution to the field of open, flexible and distributed learning is recognized
throughout the world. As a result, the following books based on his e-learning
framework are published: Managing E-Learning (Idea Group Publishing,
USA), E-Learning Strategies (Seohyunsa Press, Korea; and Erickson, Italy),
Implementing E-Learning (Dar Shua’ Printing and Publishing, Syria),
E-Learning: Design, Delivery and Evaluation (Beijing Normal University
Press, China), and E-Learning Quick Checklist (Idea Group Publishing, USA).
Dr. Khan’s e-learning books are translated into several languages.
He is currently working on a new book, Flexible Learning (in press, Educational
Technology Publications, USA), which will include case studies, design models,
strategies, and critical issues encompassing the multiple dimensions of his eLearning Framework. His framework is being recognized as a model for distance
learning by the publications of Commonwealth of Learning (COL), an organization of commonwealth countries.
A sought-after keynote speaker on Web-based instruction and elearning, Khan
is past president of the international division of the Association for Educational
and Communication Technology (AECT). He delivered keynote addresses at the
various distance learning conferences organized by the ministry of education in
Turkey, China, UAE, Bahrain, Oman and Saudi Arabia; and academic and
professional conferences in the USA, Canada, Korea, India and Bangladesh. He
was one of the select few experts invited to a symposium on virtual education
organized by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
(OSTP). He advised the EdTech Team at the US Department of Defense for the
Joint Professional Military Education in 2010: The EdTech Report. He
provided advisement in elearning related issues for the development the National Education Technology Plan for the U.S. Department of Education. He
served as a consultant/advisor to distance education related projects at the World
Bank and Ministry of Education in several countries, and academic institutions
and corporations in the USA and abroad. Dr. Khan interviews visionary leaders
in technology-based education for a regular section of the Educational Technology magazine entitled Interviews with Badrul Khan.
He is a contributing editor of Educational Technology (USA), a consulting
editor of The International Review of Research in Open and Distance
Learning (Canada), a member of the editorial board of Distance Education
Journal (Australia) and a member of the editorial board of International
Journal of Learning Technology (UK), a member of the advisory board of Media and Technology for Human Resource Development, a member of the
advisory board of Indian Journal of Training & Development, a member of
editorial advisory board of the eLearning Digest (UAE), a member of the
editorial board of eLearning (Italy) and a member of the advisory board of
Review of Education at Distance (Brazil). Dr. Khan’s homepage is available
at: BooksToRead.com/khan.