DILI, 20 october 2021 (TATOLI)– The European Union (EU) and the National University of Timor-Lorosa’e (UNTL) together with the Global Campus of Human Rights announced the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) of ‘An Introduction to Human Rights in Southeast Asia to support human rights education through distance learning.
The European Union Ambassador to Timor-Leste, Andrew Jacob said, UNTL Human Rights Center has made a great contribution to the teaching and understanding of human rights in Timor-Leste.
“European Union is proud to support, the UNTL through the Digital Learning Initiative that will make the study of human rights even more accessible.” Ambassador Andrew Jacob said in a statement.
Mr. Jacob explained the DLI is created for the UNTL professors and teaching assistants of the HRC as well as students of new transversal course, adopted by UNTL in 2020 and implemented in the current semester as a pilot edition.
“DLI to allows the blend of e-learning with in-class participation, and includes a new textbook, 30 video-lectures, PowerPoint slides and a glossary designed in Tetum and English languages,”
According to UNTL Vice-Rector for Academic Affairs Prof. Samuel Freitas, this initiative is a new permanent training and studying tool contributing to the didactic innovation of the National University for the mainstreaming of human rights education through its faculties, starting with the transversal course.
Freitas said added that All the materials were developed together with regional scholars of the Global Campus Asia-Pacific and the ASEAN University Network.
“They were carefully adapted and tested by the Timorese human rights graduates, UNTL professors, and alumni trained during the project. Moreover, several human rights organizations in Timor-Leste have collaborated to include local examples and case studies, among them CNC, PDHJ, ALFeLa, ADTL, and Lao Hamutuk.”
Global Campus Project Manager, Adriano Remiddi, stressed that the DLI focuses on the basic notions of human rights studies, plus a selection of topics related to the most pressing issues in Timor-Leste: “We are proud of this initiative and particularly of the textbook, published as an open-source and made available to everyone’’
“For this academic year, the DLI is available as a beta version to support the pilot edition of the new course. All materials will be finalized and re-published in 2022 after having incorporated students and teachers’ feedback,” said Remiddi.
The statement stated that All the human rights education initiatives in Timor-Leste are encouraged to use these materials and provide their valuable inputs.
It is also provided the official site to access the Digital Learning Initiative: http://www.gchumanrights.org/hrc-untl/digital-learning-initiative.
The should be remembered that The Global Campus of Human Rights (GC) is the largest world network of universities teaching democracy and human rights, with over 100 members in all continents.
The GC is organized in seven Regional Campuses with seven Master Programmes located in Europe (headquarter), Southeast Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, the Arab bin world, and Asia-Pacific.
The GC is funded by the European Union as a priority action of its Instrument for Democracy and human rights.
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