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This paper is one of a series of investigative reports commissioned by the Australian Government's Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR) as part of the Strategic Information and Communications Technology Advisory Service (SICTAS). It focuses on the development of Australia's school teachers to enable them to make best use of the infrastructure currently being rolled out in the Digital Education Revolution (DER). The capacity of Australia's teachers to engage in the DER is critical to its success in bringing 21st century learning to Australia's classrooms. This report assembles and analyses information from relevant international and Australian sources, and from education administrators and educators at the chalkface regarding the way forward for ICT-related professional learning. On the basis of that analysis it makes three key recommendations for possible further examination and implementation by DEEWR. The recommendations are around the critical importance of student outcomes as the key to ICT-related professional learning, the role of the Australian Government in providing a national framework to guide state and territory education jurisdictions in managing professional learning, and the role of the Australian Government in providing access to resources to support it.