Resumen de Building capacity for Oman's online teacher training: Making an international Partnership work

Gregory C. Sales, Fathiya Al-Rahbi

• The Sultanate of Oman recently investigated the viability of online teacher training through a joint project funded by the u.S. Middle East Partnership Initiative and the Oman Ministry of Education. One aspect of the project was to build sufficient capacity within the Ministry to enable Oman to produce online training in the future. This article describes the team's composition, concerns, challenges, and the solutions implemented to ensure the partnership's success, drawing conclusions for similar international efforts.