Para motivar a discussão inicial sobre este tópico, solicitou-se a leitura prévia dos relatórios do NIIAC e IEEE CG&A.
«The following principles provide guidance on how the NII can best bring substantial benefits in the area of education and lifelong learning:
- «By providing people of all ages with opportunities for lifelong learning and workplace skills development, the NII should enhance each individual's ability to create and share knowledge and to participate in electronic communities of learning.»
- «By the year 2000, all communities and all people should have convenient access to information and learning resources available through the NII in their schools, colleges, universities, libraries, and other community-centered institutions.»
- «Education, training, and lifelong learning resources, important parts of the NII, should be of world-class quality and the diversity of these resources should be broad enough to meet the full spectrum of society's interests.»
- «The capabilities of the NII should be available as a tool to enhance education, training, and lifelong learning. This will facilitate the reconstruction of our educational institutions and the redefinition of the roles of everyone involved with them - educators, administrators, librarians, parents, students, employers, and other members of society.»
- «Individuals and their communities should be empowered to help shape the evolution of the NII and to decide how information resources available through the NII can best meet their learning needs.»
- «A knowledge-based global economy will stimulate the creation of jobs that demand new information intensive workplace skills. Learning resources available on the NII should equip individuals of all ages with these skills and enable them to thrive and contribute in this new information society.»
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