Volume 3, Number 3, May 2003
Teaching Human Rights
Online Case Library
 New
technology for on-line text exchange and videoconferencing
creates unique opportunities for both individualized and group
based problem solving exercises between students of different
cultures. Teaching
Human Rights Online (THRO) seeks to improve ethical reasoning
and cross cultural communication for undergraduate students
in philosophy, history, political science, psychology, international
relations, and women’s studies; professional classes
in law, education and business; as well as high school social
studies.
The service provides:
- Critical thinking exercises for individual learning
- Collaborative problem solving assignments for student
teams
- Conferencing tools for international education online
Among its many features, THRO maintains an online Case
Library which serves up outlines of international human
rights cases. Some of the cases include President Clinton's
response to Kosovo, rape and genocide in Rwanda, and Prime
Minister Rao's Dilemma. The founders of THRO believe that
users will benefit from case-based teaching because it "requires
students to shift from passive reading and memorization to
active learning and problem solving."
Teaching Human
Rights Online is a project of the University of Cincinnati
and is open to the public.
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