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About the Carrick Institute
About the Carrick Institute (http://www.carrickinstitute.edu.au/carrick/go)
The Carrick Institute was launched in August 2004 as The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education.
Mission Statement
To promote and advance learning and teaching in Australian higher education.
Objectives
The Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education will:
- Promote and support strategic change in higher education institutions for the enhancement of learning and teaching, including curriculum development and assessment;
- Raise the profile and encourage recognition of the fundamental importance of teaching in higher education institutions and in the general community;
- Foster and acknowledge excellent teaching in higher education;
- Develop effective mechanisms for the identification, development, dissemination and embedding of good individual and institutional practice in learning and teaching in Australian higher education;
- Develop and support reciprocal national and international arrangements for the purpose of sharing and benchmarking learning and teaching processes; and
- Identify learning and teaching issues that impact on the Australian higher education system and facilitate national approaches to address these and other emerging issues.