Making the University Accessible to Everyone

fall 2013

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SPOTLIGHTS
New Chancellor: From the Supreme Court to the Open University
A New President for the Open University
A Celebration: Lord Woolf's 80th Birthday

GRADUATES
Graduation Ceremonies
A Fighter Pilot and Researcher of Nanometer Threads
27 Years Old and Co-Founder of a Multi-Million Dollar Company

INNOVATION, RESEARCH & TECHNOLOGY
OUI Now MOOCs
Digital MBA
Once App on a Time
The Eighth Chais Conference
Caregivers, Caregiving and Emotional Intelligence
Exodus: The Real Story

ACCESS
Practical Solutions for Students with Disabilities
Project 100: A Program for Arab Minorities
Enriching Immams

EVENTS
A Taste of Academia: Coffee, Beer and Professors
OUI Students Argue Best
Inauguration of Academia in High School
American Friends of Open University

HIGHLIGHTS & MILESTONES
US Ambassador Visits OUI
Prof. Sara Guri-Rosenblit
Prof. Miri Soroujoun
Prof. Bat-Zion Iraqi-Klorman
Dr. Yuval Eylon
Prof. Yagil Levy
Dr. Tzahi Weiss
OUI in National Survey
OUI Grads
Co-editors: Elissa Allerhand, Ilene Bloch-Levy Photographer: Gideon Markowitz Graphic Designer: Laura Grinberg Web Manager: Batsheva Engelberg-Behr Web Master: Sonia Pechersky, Royi Gumprich

ACCESS
Making the University Accessible to Everyone ...continued from previous page. Sensitizing and Sensitivity To help maximize the University's services for students with special learning needs, the University consulted with many of its students, gaining valuable feedback and insight into how to create an environment that would best meet their unique requirements. Faculty members also participated in workshops and seminars, sensitizing them to the needs of the students with special learning needs in their classrooms. These programs were offered in addition to the annual trips for faculty members to the Holon Museum for the Blind and Deaf organized by Dana Kaspi-Tsahor, Coordinator of Special Needs Students. The University's Special Needs Students division was established in 2007, and since then has assisted some 2,000 students to effectively navigate their way through their higher education program. Two years ago, the National Insurance Institute turned to the universities to ask them how they were meeting the special needs of their students -- hearing, seeing, physical, illness, learning disabilities, etc. The Open University was one of the very few universities that had already made major breakthroughs in answering these students' needs. The Open University's unique curriculum takes advantage of assistive technologies and similarly grants great flexibility in earning venues, making it an ideal environment for providing customized, effective technologies and services to special needs students with disabilities. Based on the innovations initiated by the Open University and the experience gained, the National Insurance plans to expand the project to other universities and institutions and to apply what has been learned from the Open University's access project. Page: 1 2 3

ACCESS

...continued from previous page.

Sensitizing and Sensitivity

To help maximize the University's services for students with special learning needs, the University consulted with many of its students, gaining valuable feedback and insight into how to create an environment that would best meet their unique requirements.

Faculty members also participated in workshops and seminars, sensitizing them to the needs of the students with special learning needs in their classrooms. These programs were offered in addition to the annual trips for faculty members to the Holon Museum for the Blind and Deaf organized by Dana Kaspi-Tsahor, Coordinator of Special Needs Students.

The University's Special Needs Students division was established in 2007, and since then has assisted some 2,000 students to effectively navigate their way through their higher education program. Two years ago, the National Insurance Institute turned to the universities to ask them how they were meeting the special needs of their students -- hearing, seeing, physical, illness, learning disabilities, etc. The Open University was one of the very few universities that had already made major breakthroughs in answering these students' needs.

The Open University's unique curriculum takes advantage of assistive technologies and similarly grants great flexibility in earning venues, making it an ideal environment for providing customized, effective technologies and services to special needs students with disabilities.

Based on the innovations initiated by the Open University and the experience gained, the National Insurance plans to expand the project to other universities and institutions and to apply what has been learned from the Open University's access project.

Page: 1 2 3