Online Learning Update Ray Schroeder, editor, OTEL - University of Illinois at Springfield

Bobby Approved (v 3.2)
Monday, June 25, 2001

http://fyi.cnn.com/2001/fyi/teachers.ednews/06/20/greenspan.education.ap/index.html

Greenspan promotes 'lifelong' learning
June 20, 2001
Web posted at: 3:44 PM EDT (1944 GMT)


WASHINGTON (AP) -- In an increasingly technological society, the nation's educational system must be flexible to help workers meet new challenges, Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan said Wednesday. The days when a high school or college education would serve a person throughout his working life are gone, Greenspan said, adding that "learning will increasingly need to be a lifelong activity."

Demands placed on employees amid an ever-changing, high-technology workplace will mean that workers will continually need to learn and master new skills, Greenspan said, speaking at a summit on the 21st century work force sponsored by the Labor Department....

 



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