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The time may be ripe to reassess our processes and priorities
Office of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation
Through state-of-the-art programming and a pioneering approach to teaching, the Office of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation (OCPI) is transforming teaching, learning, and assessment in liberal education.
AAC&U Advancing Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation
Creating foundations for excellence: Through research, capacity-building, and advocacy, the Office of Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation (OCPI) provides actionable innovations in teaching, learning, and assessment to improve undergraduate liberal education for all students.
Programs & Initiatives
VALUE InitiativeVALUE InitiativeVALUE is an authentic approach to assessment designed to articulate and measure the skills, abilities, and dispositions that students need and that parents, policymakers, and employers demand. Learn more.
Open Educational ResourcesOpen Educational ResourcesThe adoption of open educational resources (OER)—materials that are free or low-cost for faculty and students to use, customize, and share—is a foundational strategy for improving student equity and college affordability.Learn more.
Faculty Professional DevelopmentFaculty Professional DevelopmentFrom assignment (re)design to course-level enhancements to curricular reform, OCPI applies a holistic approach to build faculty capacity. Learn more.
ePortfoliosePortfoliosBoth a product—an archive of learning artifacts—and a process that supports student learning, ePortfolios digitally curate student work to provide an authentic representation of learning outcomes. Learn more.
Latest Activity
Conference\
2022 Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment
The conference will focus on reimagining curricular structures, pedagogical approaches, and assessment methods in order truly to make quality and equity the hallmarks of excellence in undergraduate education in service to democracy.
Annual Meeting\
2022 Annual Forum on Open Learning and ePortfolios
The Forum on Open Learning and ePortfolios Forum is cohosted by the Association for Authentic, Experiential and Evidence-Based Learning
Institute\
2022 Institute on ePortfolios
Sharing Best Practices for Collecting and Reflecting on Student Work
Office Staff
Kate Drezek McConnell
Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of VALUE
Jessica Chittum
Director of Assessment and Pedagogical InnovationBeth Perkins
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Hannah Schneider
Program Associate and Assistant to the Vice President
C. Edward Watson
Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation