A proposal for a project. Which organisations would be interested in such a product?

1. Lingua2Go
A Grundtvig Erasmus+
Project proposal

2. 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.

3. Learning is going mobile

4. Publishers are partnering with tool
developers

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

6. What about the
active retired?

7. When they travel?

9. Cross-platform

10. From this…

11. …to this…

12. … and this
Audio/video
Glossary items
annotation
Images
Support
language

13. 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.

14. 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

15. 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

16. Valorisation