In the fall of 2012, two language courses—French C and Modern Hebrew—worked with ATG to make multimedia-rich flashcards, replacing the traditional paper model with a digital version that would offer additional tools and appeal to different learning styles.

The goals of this project were to add “culturally representative” images to the cards, to include audio of a native speaker saying the word, to indicate with color coding whether a word was masculine or feminine, to embed short video clips in the cards, and to create cards that...