The Eutropian Commission intends the Eutropolis tertiary education system to be a model for tertiary education systems throughout Eutropia. In order for this to be the case, education and training in the new Eutropian capital must depart radically from the educational methods which reigned during the past century. The Eutropian Commission is convinced that the educational system of the 21st century will be characterized by the disappearance of many kinds of traditional borders:

• The traditional idea that most learning should take place during childhood and adolescence will disappear. Just-in-time learning and life-long learning will be the rule rather than the exception.

• Similarly, learning will no longer be confined to traditional locations. Education and training will be available wherever and whenever learners want to take advantage of it. State and privately owned education providers will compete for students. Distributed, WWW-based learning will provide an increasing share of all learning opportunities.

• Traditional boundaries between disciplines will disappear. Narrowly-defined, highly-specialized knowledge will decline in importance and interdisciplinary fields (e.g. Microsystem Technology, Comparative Literature) will gain in importance.

• Learning will cease to be treated as the accumulation of theoretical knowledge and will be increasingly combined with the practical application of that knowledge. Work and study will be inextricably interwoven.

• The boundary between learning and pleasure will disappear. Learning in this new universal and ubiquitous form will be fun. "Edutainment" will become so pervasive that all educational providers will feel its influence. The Eutropian Commission considers the intelligent use of modern information and communication technologies to be an important key to the establishment of this modern education system.

The Commission therefore announces a Call for Proposals, in which Eutropian information technologies consultancies and firms are asked to develop and submit a design plan (including a feasibility study) for the Eutropolis tertiary education system's information infrastructure. The winning proposal will be fully consistent with the needs of the tertiary education system being designed by the Task Force on Education and Training in Eutropolis (TaskFETE). For this reason, it is extremely important that proposers work closely with the Task Force and its members to ensure that the Task Force's final report and the technical consultants' proposals reflect/embody the following:

• the vision of the Eutropian Parliament's Resolution Calling for the Establishment of a New Eutropian Capital;

• the expectations of the Eutropian Commission regarding current needs and trends as well as future developments in tertiary education (see the ICT White Paper);

• the optimal use of current information and communication technologies, combined with an open design that supports anticipated future developments,

  Completed proposals are to be submitted to the Task Force by Friday, 19 November, 1999, for discussion at the teleconference on Monday, 22 November.

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