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The Institute for the Advancement of Teaching in Higher Education (IATHE or "the Institute") is a strategic alliance of educational development experts, award winning teachers, educational associations and institutions and corporations who are actively engaged in the scholarship of teaching and learning through the design and the delivery of professional development resources, programs and events to foster teaching excellence in higher education.

The idea behind the formation of the Institute was to create a sustainable mechanism for collaboration in higher education across Canada and internationally. Essentially, the Institute represents a mechanism for partnership between educational associations and private-sector businesses as they work towards common goals in higher education such as providing professional development resources to faculty and improving learning opportunities for students.

Specifically, the Institute grew out of a Pan-Canadian collaborative effort funded by CANARIE (Industry Canada) called the Universities Collaborative Communities for E-Learning Adoption (UCCELA). The UCCELA project was composed of two initiatives that address collaboration through broadband Internet technologies: facultydevelopment.ca and e-Kit. Both initiatives are successfully facilitating collaboration and E-Learning, however a means to sustain them past the initial funding was required.

The Institute is this sustainable mechanism for our continued collaboration. It is an incorporated not-for-profit business that has been founded as a strategic alliance and collaboration of stakeholders from higher education and the private sector. It is governed by an elected Board.

The objects and goals of the Institute are to:

(a) to promote and support the attainment of the common goals of its Members and, as identified by the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, the pursuit of post-secondary teaching as scholarship, advocacy for excellence in post-secondary teaching and learning, inclusiveness and broad representation in Institute activities, and the formation of strategic partnerships;

(b) to continue the development of the facultydevelopment.ca web site;

(c) to develop modular, faculty development courses based on the facultydevelopment.ca content, and in accordance with applicable law, accreditation for the completion of these courses;

(d) to organize and deliver thematic workshops related to faculty development;

(e) to promote professional development of university faculty and college teachers by providing consultation related to the faculty development themes by those involved with the Institute and facultydevelopment.ca.

(f) to develop a speakers bureau database of workshop leaders and conference speakers for faculty development issues;

(g) to organize and deliver a series of summer institutes related to faculty development; and

(h) to conduct research, (primarily action based and applied research), related to faculty development and teaching in higher education.

This site provides additional links for information about membership in the Institute. For additional information about the Institute and its governance, contact us at info@iathe.org