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About the Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA)


Vision: The overarching vision for the Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations (NATA) was to facilitate a sustainable collaborative network between established higher education associations with the intent of fostering best practice in networks to engage members more strongly with Australasian higher education learning and teaching.

Mission: Improve engagement and practice through network leadership.

The NATA was a 2-year ALTC-funded legacy project led by Professor Mike Keppell (University of Southern Queensland) and Gordon Suddaby. The collaborative project included Australasian Council on Open, Distance and E-Learning (ACODE) and Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ascilite) as lead organisations; Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD) Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) and Open and Distance Learning Association of Australia (ODLAA) as partner organisations and Australia's Academic and Research Network (AARnet), Netspot and Office of Learning and Teaching (OLT) as enabling partners. ACODE and ascilite as peak bodies in the Australasian Higher Education sector have representation in Universities in the domain of technology enhanced learning and teaching and have a Memorandum of Understanding that supported their collaborative partnership and the NATA.

The NATA was developed in response to the disbanding of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) and sought to continue the work of the ALTC in its critical roles of sharing best practice, promoting collaboration and collegiality and engaging academic staff in the scholarship of learning and teaching. The overarching vision for the Network of Australasian Tertiary Associations was to facilitate a sustainable collaborative network between established higher education associations with the intent of fostering best practice in networks to engage members more strongly with Australasian higher education learning and teaching. A key part of this vision was the promotion, dissemination and enhancement of the outcomes of Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) funded projects.


The project was driven by Seven Key Objectives and guided by a Set of Principles.



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