For over four decades, textbooks have been enhanced with digital components, and today, it is almost impossible to find a textbook that does not contain any. Does this mean that textbooks have been fully digitalized and that we have reached a point where the integration of digital media into textbooks is the norm? Since there is no clear consensus on what is meant by the digitalization of textbooks, there is no simple answer to this question. This edited volume, therefore, attempts to clarify the respective terminology as a starting point. Through a multi-perspective approach and the joint conceptual considerations of various experts, it then provides insights into the historical processes of the increasing digitalization of textbooks, into evaluations of the current status quo, and into considerations of different and innovative design options for future interactive learning and teaching environments. In doing so, it identifies deficiencies and challenges and offers perspectives for new developments.
The edited volume explores the digitalization of textbooks over four decades. It clarifies terminology and assesses current and past (digital) textbooks, offering perspectives for future developments. Through expert insights, it presents innovative design possibilities for teaching and learning environments.
Table of Contents - Almut Ketzer-Nöltge / Nicola Würffel - Digital
Textbook, Textbook 4.0, or Interactive Teaching and Learning Environment?
Introduction to the Edited Volume - Nicola Würffel - From Worksheet Generator
to Interactive App: Digital Textbook Components in German Textbooks for
German as a Foreign Language from 1980 to 2024 - Almut Ketzer-Nöltge / Nicola
Würffel - The Digitalization of Language Textbooks: An Analysis of Textbooks
for German as a Foreign Language from 1990 until Today - Dietmar Rösler
-Textbook Representations of the Learners Perspective on the Culture and
Society of the Countries of the Target Language: 30 Years Ago and 30 Years
Hence - Carolyn Blume / Lisa Middelanis / Torben Schmidt - Where Tasks,
Technology, and Textbooks Meet: An Exploratory Analysis of English Language
Teachers' Perceived Affordances of an Intelligent Language Tutoring System -
Manuela Franke - The Use of Digital Components of Textbooks in Foreign
Language Teaching: A Study Using the Example of Homework Assignments in Lower
Secondary Education - Selmin Hedemann / Yibo Min - Online German Language
Courses with Augmented Reality. An Empirical Study on the Use of the Merge
Cube in Two Online German Courses - Kathleen Plötner. The Immersive Digital
Textbook Future VR Scenarios in Foreign Language Learning - Almut
Ketzer-Nöltge / Caroline Nast / Lisa Höfler- Advancing Discourse Literacy in
360 Degrees: Two Suggestions - Natallia Baliuk - Go social! Why Textbook 4.0
Should Implement Social Networking Sites and What It Has to Offer for
Language Teaching and Learning - Julia Wolbergs / Michaela Markovic / Lisa
Höfler- Mitreden im StudentXChange OER Teaching Material 4.0 in the Context
of German-Chinese School Exchange - David Fujisawa - Grammar with Building
Blocks - Antje Rüger - Authenticity vs. Plannable Progression? Insights into
a Textbook-independent Spanish Course for Adults
Almut Ketzer-Nöltge is Professor for German as a Foreign Language at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. Her research interests include multimedia teaching and learning as well as cognitive language processing.
Nicola Würffel is Professor of German as a Foreign Language at Leipzig University. Her research focus is on the digitalization of foreign language teaching and professionalization of prospective German as a Foreign Language teachers.
