Describes a computer-based simulation program used in biology and physics classes in German colleges and universities. Concludes that the use of media in teaching has far-reaching possibilities which must be explored by teachers in higher education. (KC)

The education system is a failure and must be reexamined. Student teacher relationships and teaching methods must change. In the future, instead of learning by rote, students will have recourse to data banks to obtain the materials to be used as content for the exercise of what Piaget calls operativity. (RM)