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The Perfect Union
Open educational resources can strengthen diversity, equity, and inclusion
Program Office
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.
Call for Chapters on General Education in Higher Education
General education reform touches on a broad array of units, topics, and issues, and this book invites chapter proposals on the entirety of the landscape that is general education reform, administration, participation, and assessment.
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.
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.
Faculty Professional DevelopmentFaculty Professional DevelopmentFrom assignment (re)design to course-level enhancements to curricular reform, OCPI applies a holistic approach to building faculty capacity.
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.
Latest Activity
Magazine\
How to Create Compassionate Classrooms
In troubled times, we must support and care for students
Magazine\
Inquiry and Discovery All Around
A teacher-scholar approach enhances learning and scholarship
Publication\
Leveraging Open Educational Resources to Advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Guide for Campus Change Agents
This publication provides evidence-based strategies that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion goals while also instantiating open educational resources (OER) within the mainstream of the instructional culture of a campus.
Office Staff
Kate Drezek McConnell
Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director of VALUE
C. Edward Watson
Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation and Executive Director for Open Educational Resources and Digital Innovation