Textbook 4.0 - From Paper-Based Textbooks with Digital Components to Interactive Teaching and Learni

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.

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.

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