Abstract
The networking of schools and the use of multimedia in the classroom became a worldwide phenomenon in the 1990s, which is linked to high expectations of the school education system. In Germany, the "Schools on the Net" initiative launched in 1995 by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Technology (BMBF) and Deutsche Telekom played a major role in raising awareness in many schools, but also among the general public, about the importance of learning with new media. Numerous teaching examples have now been developed in schools. State institutes have set up state servers that provide school- and lesson-related information and materials. Teacher training measures are being carried out to accompany this. The project group "Innovations in Education" of the Bund-Länder Commission for Educational Planning and Research Promotion (BLK) has identified the systematic inclusion of media and information and communication technologies in teaching and learning processes (SEMIK) as one of the new funding priorities, in which a total of 24 pilot projects of the Länder are being promoted (Mandl, Reinmann-Rothmeier, Gräsel 1998).
