The challenge for teachers in undergraduate science and mathematics in the 21st century will be reorganizing science course materials to improve the accessibility of the content.
Most teachers teach the same way they learned the material.
The challenge is to reorient the course to draw students into interacting with the ideas and concepts, rather than merely copying down information. This means training primary and secondary school teachers to act as interpreters when using the emerging technologies to bring science into the classroom. A good graphical program is useless unless the teacher can explain the concepts it demonstrates. Another challenge will be for small colleges and universities to compete for funding to develop small, basic research laboritories that complement those found at large universities. Many opportunities for science education will grow out of the multimedia technology for illustrating scientific concepts and exercises.