Accessible by Design. OPEN to All.
Over the past year, we've been talking with faculty across campus about accessibility and Title II,
trying to make sense of what the requirements mean for everyday teaching, what they're supposed to do about it, what support exists, etc. And what we kept hearing was pretty consistent: instructors were feeling overwhelmed and alone. The awareness was there; what was missing was a way through, to go from awareness to action.
OPEN came out of those conversations. We wanted to build something that felt less like a training and more like having a knowledgeable colleague walk you through your course. It's a self-paced program for Berkeley community, built on bCourses, with four modules, each focused on one area of accessible course design.
Open is built around Berkeley faculty voices. Throughout the program, you'll hear from four colleagues who've been rethinking their courses: Robin Ball (Continuing Lecturer, Molecular and Cell Biology and Neuroscience Department), Austin Hedeman (Lecturer and Academic Coordinator, Physics Department.), Laura Riley (Assistant Dean of Clinical Education, Berkeley Law), and Kathleen Ryan (Associate Professor & Vice Chair of Instruction, Plant and Microbial Biology Department.)