Lingua2Go

A Grundtvig Erasmus+ Project proposal

Why this project?

• The market for interactive digital textbooks will increase rapidly over the next 5 years. Compulsory education and HE will be prioritised.

• Tablets & smartphones make the digital world more accessible to older people through ease of use

• Being able to communicate on holiday helps to keep older people’s minds active.

Learning is going mobile

Publishers are partnering with tool developers

Publishers are in interactive text book market converting existing texts for mainstream education

What about the active retired?

When they travel?

Cross-platform

From this…

…to this…

… and this

Audio/video

Glossary items

annotation

Images

Support language

Project Products

1. 10 chapter iBook/app with support in 4 languages

2. Guidance for trainers in adapting class pedagogy to work with interactive books accessible to the older person.

Project tasks

• ascertain the new pedagogical possibilities for language teaching available in ibooks/apps Eg audio, glossary, quiz, annotation

• test how our target group would use such material• adapt the Danish materials to the medium and extend/adapt

them to make best use of the technology.• produce support material (eg glossary, FAQ) in the partner target

languages, Danish, German, Portuguese, Italian & English• Produce the 4 language product• Pilot the product in 4 partner countries• Help others use the Lingua2Go interactive book/apps with free

trainer guidance

Partners

• Hanne Andreassen, Denmark, author & pilot teacher

• Anne Fox, Denmark, elearning expert, valorisation through NooA

• VHS Passau, Germany, piloting of ibook version• Portugal, university, piloting, pedagogical

development• IFAO, Italy, quality assurance• XX, UK, dissemination & valorisation

Valorisation