Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

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The Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education (ILT) was a UK organisation set up as "the professional body for higher education staff involved in teaching and the support of learning". [1] It was founded in 2000 as a result of the reports of the National Committee of Inquiry into Higher Education (the "Dearing Report"). [2]

The ILT was located on York Science Park. The founding Chief Executive was Paul Clark. [3]

Its stated aims [3] were to:

In May 2004 the ILT merged with the Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN), and the TQEF National Co-ordination Team (NCT) to form the Higher Education Academy. [4]

References

  1. "ILT Routes to Membership" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2015.
  2. Helen Beebee (2003) Times Higher Education 28 March 2003
  3. 1 2 Sally Brown (1999) Active Learning 10 pp 678 "Introducing the Institute for Learning and Teaching" ISSN 1357-1125
  4. Teaching and Learning Research Programme, University of London Archived 2015-02-26 at the Wayback Machine Effective learning and teaching in UK higher education ISBN   978-0-85473-890-8