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Competitive performance as a liberal art
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.
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 build 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
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2023 Conference on General Education, Pedagogy, and Assessment
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Open Books, Open Minds
Open educational resources improve student retention and success and help level the academic playing field
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2022-2023 Institute on Open Educational Resources
AAC&U’s year-long Institute on Open Educational Resources (OER) is designed for campuses aspiring to launch or expand initiatives to develop or leverage free and affordable materials in teaching and learning contexts.
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 Coordinator/Assistant to the Vice President
C. Edward Watson
Associate Vice President for Curricular and Pedagogical Innovation