THRO’s founding director began the project after attending a University of Cincinnati summer technology institute in 1996. Over the next three years U.C. Faculty Development Council grants enabled him to attend case writing and instructional technology workshops while developing and disseminating three prototype exercises.
E-cases and online conferencing served U.C. development initiatives on technology, teaching, and globalization while enhancing the university’s internationally recognized contribution to human rights education. Since 1980 the Urban Morgan Institute for Human Rights has pioneered interdisciplinary scholarly research and teaching. The Director is Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Quarterly published by Johns Hopkins press, and Series Editor, Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights. The institute and library employ experienced technical specialists and student assistants in support of human rights research and publications.
U.C. faculty from arts and sciences, law, business and education formed a core group of teaching associates, and instructors from other universities began adopting THRO cases for class use. The project’s first external grant, from the U.S. Institute of Peace, supported a professional development workshop at U.C. that attracted faculty from eight countries and ten states. The September 1999 training session added to THRO-Net new Teaching Associates who then conducted online conferences linking U.S. students with classes abroad. In 2000
