COL’s Teacher Education Programme aims to help governments and institutions in the Commonwealth to address some of these challenges by supporting them to: • Develop relevant programmes for teachers and teacher educators that are based on proven teaching methods and take into account local context. • Improve institutional capacity to use open and distance learning (ODL) and ICT effectively so that more teachers can be trained in academic and vocational streams. • Improve the quality of teaching and learning to ensure positive learning outcomes. • Develop open educational resources (OER) and scale up the adoption and adaptation of OER.