An invited presentation given to students and faculty at the University of Education in Lahore, Pakistan to share insights into international teacher education via distance learning. Key topics included: a) responding to the challenge of Covid-19 as an opportunity to innovate in pedagogy and practice – teaching teachers when teaching has moved online b) postgraduate level educational research in the time of Covid-19: studying ‘schooling’ when ‘schooling’, staff and students are online/offline/hybrid - teaching teachers to do research when teaching has moved online c) video-enhanced dialogic assessment – researching changing assessment practices because of distance learning and Covid-19.