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The Australian Learning and Teaching Council has a mission to enhance learning and teaching in Australian higher education.

We realise our mission through our strategic directions which set our priorities for the next five years.
 
ALTC responsibilities are derived from our objectives. 

Objectives

The Australian Learning and Teaching Council will:
  1. Promote and support strategic change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching, including curriculum development and assessment;
  2. Raise the profile and encourage recognitions of the fundamental importance of teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community;
  3. Foster and acknowledge excellence in teaching in higher education;
  4. Develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and institutional practice in learning and teaching in Australian higher education;
  5. Develop and support reciprocal national and international arrangements for the purpose of sharing and benchmarking learning and teaching processes; and
  6. Identify learning and teaching issues that impact on the Australian higher education system and facilitate national approaches to address these and other emerging issues.

Values

Inclusiveness:  by assisting the development of networks and communities which support higher education staff who have a direct impact on the advancement of learning and teaching.

Long-term change: through a focus on systemic change.

Diversity: by recognising and valuing institutional and discipline differences and similarities.

Collaboration: through the programs it funds and in its work practices.

Excellence: through the recognition of quality in its programs and awards and its encouragement of higher education institution's recognition of quality teaching and learning.   ■

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