Summary

The authors argue that the process of designing learning materials has to be done to utilize the many possibilities of contemporary digital technologies and, consequently, that a focal point in the study of learning materials must concern the utilization of these new possibilities. For that purpose, they developed a framework for analyzing digital learning materials based on the notion of affordance. The framework is used to study how six courses from a widely used digital form of Danish L1 learning material integrate different kinds of affordances into their learning designs. Based on the results of the analysis, the implications of the transformation from print to digital are discussed.