In order to solve the reported difficulties, about 5-10 years ago, a third wave of innovative
science education projects came up. Some examples are the North-American project of
‘Chemistry in Contexts: Applying Chemistry to Society’ (CiC), and the Dutch project of ‘New
Chemistry’. At this time, it is too early to evaluate the value of the recent reform properly.
Finally, I will note that the interest in computer-assisted instruction and learning came up
between the second and third wave of reform, followed by the growing use of Internet in
science education.