Brochure for the Open and Distance Learning Training and Mentorship Programme. This initiative involves a six-month training and mentorship programme focussed on practitioner research on ODL in higher education. The project aims to stimulate and support practitioner research within the ODL sphere and so facilitate quality educational research. This programme not only provides online training opportunities regarding practitioner research within the ODL context, it also involves establishing a network of mentors to promote high-quality research in ODL, and encourages sharing of research findings through online fora and publications.