ABSTRACT
The involvement of the UK Open University (OU) in teacher education may seem surprising in some ways since the United Kingdom is a small country where distances are not great for much of the population, where communications are good and where there is a considerable number of colleges and universities offering teacher-education courses of all kinds (over 90 institutions offer a variety of in-service courses for teachers in the UK). What kind of role can distance education play in teacher education in these circumstances? This case study examines the role of the OU in in-service teacher education.
