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Professor Mostafa Azad Kamal is presently working at Bangladesh Open University as the Dean of the School of Business. He is a Professor in International and Development Economics. He completed his graduate studies from the University of Namur, Belgium. He has been engaged in open and distance learning for more than 22 years. Professor Mostafa’s research interests are eLearning, OER, ODL, and quality assurance in higher education. He teaches economics, statistics, research methods, and quantitative techniques courses in MBA and Commonwealth MBA programmes offered by the School of Business, Bangladesh Open University. In addition, he is also a Creative Commons Fellow for Open Leadership. He is an instructional designer in eLearning and ODL. He received intensive training on the instructional design in ODL from the University of Waterloo and also on instructional design in eLearning from Open Polytechnic, New Zealand…. read more

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