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Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic, teaching has become a challenge for many teachers due to school closures, little or no internet connectivity, lack of access to devices and online educational resources, and difficulty in quickly moving from a traditional classroom to an online environment.

UNESCO and Blackboard have launched a teacher training programme with the goal of training 10 000 Caribbean teachers in the use of online education tools, resources and interactive platforms to effectively engage students through distance education.  

In response to the disruption of the Caribbean education system, UNESCO, in collaboration with Blackboard and the Caribbean Centre for Educational Planning (CCEP) at the University of the West Indies launched the programme in January 2021.

This programme is made possible with the financial support of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) under UNESCO's , a multi-sectoral education Coalition to protect the right to education during COVID-19.

The first of three four-week teacher training courses began on 22 June 2021, with the aim of training 10,000 teachers across the sub-region by November 2021. Through a partnership with UNICEF in Jamaica, the initiative aims to train 5,000 of these teachers in Jamaica. This initiative gives teachers strategies, tools and resources to use in the digital space to create an online classroom environment that meets the needs of both students and teachers.

In the , 40 teachers from the Caribbean sub-region were already trained as 'master trainers' in blended learning and online strategies, which further shared their knowledge on digital skills with up to 300 teachers in their countries.