Central to the expansion of open and innovative schooling provision, is to empower staff with the skills to work in new ways. The photo was taken during a large training workshop conducted by COL for the Universal Basic Education Commission in Abuja, Nigeria, just before the COVID-19 pandemic closed opportunities for physical workshops. Since then, training has happened online using a variety of synchronous and asynchronous training and support in areas such as curriculum-based OER content development, quality assurance, blended learning pedagogy, Aptus-based pedagogy, centre management, and monitoring and evaluation of pilot models.