Dr. Matiul Alam

Email: matiulalam@athabascau.ca

Matiul Alam, Ph.D. (1996) is an independent educational researcher. He received his Masters degrees in Statistics (1978) and Education (1988), and a Post Graduate Diploma in Learning Resources (Educational Technology). He teaches ETEC 521 Indigeneity, Technology and Education and ETEC 511 Foundations of Educational Technology in the Masters of Educational Technology Program at University of British Columbia. Dr. Alam, a former Professor of Education at Commonwealth Open University (UK) taught several other education courses including Understanding Research (online), Oral Traditions and Literacy Development, Educating Exceptional Students, Dimensions of Equity, Achievement Motivation, Educational Psychology, Computer Uses in Education, Research Methods, Classroom Management, Assessment and Evaluation in the Elementary, Intercultural Competencies for Teachers, Educational Research and Data Analysis, and School Community Relations in USA and Canada.

Dr. Alam serves on Vancouver School Board’s Race Relation Committee. He served as the elected President of the Vancouver Multicultural Society (2006-07) and a task force member of UNESCO's anti-racism consultative forums. He has co-authored, "Combating Rural Poverty" and done several program evaluation reports as well as served on the editorial board of a social science journal, "Review of Human Factor Studies" and serves as a reviewer for the American Educational Research Association conference papers.

Dr. Alam contributed significantly during pre-liberation movement and liberation war of Bangladesh. He managed UNICEF funded and Save the Children (USA) administered non-formal education, media/ communications support services, and participatory action research programs in Bangladesh, and worked with Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Dr. Muhammad Yunus during Grameen Bank's pilot stages in rural communications and staff development areas, and also leaded BRAC's (Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee) functional education program under the mentorship of it's founder Sir Fazle Hasan Abed and inspirer Paulo Freire. He initiated an innovative Queen's-BRAC educational technology and teacher education project with CIDA (Canadian International Development Agency) funding in late 1980s and During 1994 - 1996 he served as the Director of BRAC's Aarong-Canada program. Dr. Alam is one of the founding members of Khatamun Moin Women's College in Bakshigonj, Bangladesh.

His academic interests include continuing and international education, distance learning, informal and non-formal learning, instructional technology, multi-literacies and numeracy, professional ethics, and inclusive education of the poor and disadvantaged.

CDE - Last Updated by MM December 05, 2011