\input zb-basic \input zb-matheduc \iteman{ZMATH 2012b.00164} \itemau{Meletiou-Mavrotheris, Maria; Serrad\'o, Ana} \itemti{Distance education of statistics teachers.} \itemso{Batanero, Carmen (ed.) et al., Teaching statistics in school mathematics -- challenges for teaching and teacher education. A joint ICMI/IASE Study: The 18th ICMI Study. Berlin: Springer (ISBN 978-94-007-1130-3/hbk; 978-94-007-1131-0/ebook). New ICMI Study Series 14, 383-394 (2011).} \itemab Summary: The affordances offered by modern Internet technologies provide new opportunities for the pre-service and in-service education of teachers, making it possible to overcome the restrictions of shrinking resources and geographical locations and to offer, in a cost-effective and non-disruptive way, high quality learning experiences to geographically dispersed teachers. The focus of this chapter is the question of how information and communication tools made available online could be exploited effectively to help improve the quality and efficiency of teacher training in statistics education. \itemrv{~} \itemcc{B50 D49} \itemut{teacher education; instructional modes} \itemli{doi:10.1007/978-94-007-1131-0\_36} \end