1September, 1993, the Clinton administration of the United States formally put forward the plan to build the National Information Infrastructure (NII), commonly known as the "information superhighway". Its core is to develop a comprehensive information service system with the Internet as the core, and promote the wide application of information technology in various fields of society. Under its impetus, many developed countries and developing countries have successively issued a series of national information infrastructure construction plans, thus driving the wave of global information construction.
The concept of educational informatization was put forward with the construction of information superhighway in 1990s. In the "information superhighway" plan of the United States, the application of information technology in education is especially regarded as an important way to implement the education reform oriented to 2 1 century. This move by the United States has aroused positive reactions from all countries in the world, and many governments have made plans to promote the application of information technology in education.
Since the end of 1990s, with the rapid popularization of network technology, the relationship between the development of the whole society and information technology is getting closer and closer, and people pay more and more attention to the influence of information technology on social development. The expression of "social informatization" has begun to appear, which is related to the reform and development of education, and the expression of "educational informatization" has also begun to appear. The concept of "educational informatization" has been formally used in various government documents, and attaches great importance to educational informatization.