Using H5P creating high quality OER :async:

[OEGconnect]

Ole Fossgård (Norwegian Digital Learning Arena – NDLA), Johannes Nag (Norwegian Digital Learning Arena – NDLA)

H5P (html5 package) is a standardised format for packaging and sharing rich internet content. The H5P techonology is open source, and allows for the creation of high quality, versatile learning resources, which can easily be shared and reused. Its built-in support for Creative Commons licenses makes it even more attractive for OER.

NDLA has for many years been contributing to the development of H5P. In recent years we have funded the development of Virtual Tour 360, general support for translation and improved licence declaration for H5P. In addition we have actively suggested improvements of usability in design and navigation for H5Ps to adhere to stronger legal requirements in Norway. NDLA has many years of experience from producing, sharing and maintaining a large repository of content items.

H5P is suitable for step-by-step learning and for explorative learning, and is for instance especially suitable for language learning, allowing for successful scaffolding and contextualization of authentic materials and experiences.

NDLA has recently developed several new content types together with a third party provider, focusing on reflection and argumentation. These content types might inspire even more activity on part of the learners.

In this interactive activity session we will give a short overall introduction to H5P and some of the content types available, like Interactive Video and Course Presentation, with examples from our own production. Then we will show the use of one of the reflection/argumentation content types. The content type “Priority” allows students to organise predefined arguments into a prioritised sequence, fill in their own, and deliberate on the choices they have made.

This will be a hands-on, practical session, which will give the participants the knowledge needed for producing interactive content in H5P on their own.

Extended abstract: OE_Global_2021_paper_111.pdf 📄

Activity Details

UNESCO OER Action Area: Building capacity
Format: Asynchronous Interactive Activity
Language: English

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This activity can be completed at any time during (or after) the conference.

Instructions and materials for the activity will be added below by the authors. They will provide specific details on how to participate and what to share back as a response to the activity.

[johannesnag]

Using H5P creating high quality OER

[Eseta]

@johannesnag I was looking for exactly this kind of resource (general intro to H5P for teaching) and your video provided just enough info so that I can get started using it on my university LMS. Thank you.

[cogdog]

Thank you for a very thorough introduction to building with H5P. I am very interesting in the Priority Content Type demonstrated, but I am not seeing the place to find an example I can download the H5P source.

Among the many reasons to like H5P is that ability to add content types not available via the ones included say in the WordPress plugin editor (I worked with a faculty to add the Advanced Fill In the Blanks type that was not in the Pressbooks site she used).

[cogdog]

For reference to those interested in H5P, several other OEGlobal 2021 presentations include items of interest.

Developing Writers: Using H5P to Support Composition Practice

Brenna Clarke Gray (Thompson Rivers University) Many practitioners who love H5P only scratch the surface of its capacity and flexibility. In particular, H5P has been underutilized in the development of composition and writing practice. Participants will take a deep-dive into using H5P for developing essay writing skills to support self-development. By the end of the session, participants will understand how to use H5P for composition practice and will leave the session with a sample H5P exercise…

Brenna’s presentation and resource at https://oeglobal21.trubox.ca/ includes insight into using among other content types, the Documentation tool as well as addressing accessibility issues

Open Resources for Nursing

Kimberly Ernstmeyer (Chippewa Valley Technical College), Vince Mussehl (Chippewa Valley Technical College) Tour three nursing OER textbooks created by the Open Resources for Nursing (Open RN) project, including Nursing Pharmacology, Nursing Skills, and Nursing Fundamentals. These textbooks are published in Pressbooks with CC-BY licensing and uploaded to LibreTexts for easy remixing and alignment with your curriculum. An associated virtual simulation learning activity that was created using an H5…

Kim Ernstmeyer shares resources from the OpenRN project including a large suite of H5P Branching Scenarios, available as a collection in LibreStudio https://studio.libretexts.org/collection/5224

Building the OER capacity of university students through renewable assignments

Eseta Tualaulelei (University of Southern Queensland), Mais Fatayer (University of Technology Sydney) This mini learning activity will present an evidence-based model for building university student capacities to create and access Open Educational Resources (OER) through the process of renewable assignments. It will demonstrate how the cognitive surplus of students in higher education can be utilised to address professional challenges. Case studies from projects the authors have conducted along …

This activity included a fantastic example of the H5P Interactive Book used to overview Student Generated OER model

I’d like also to recommend for anyone interested in getting practice creating H5P content who does not have access to a self hosted version of WordPress, or a Pressbooks account, or an LMS that has H5Psupport enabled, to look at the Lumi app- a downloadable H5P editor that can be used on Windows, OSX, and Linux platforms. It can create .h5p content that can be imported elsewhere.

Lumi

And lastly I was involved in an H5P development project for BCcampus and all of the resources, examples, and webinars we hosted are openly available from the H5P Kitchen

The H5P Kitchen – Cooking OERs with H5P

Oh one more (I really love H5P)… we ran a series of asynchronous H5P workshops here in OEG Connect, resources totally open and available.

[johannesnag]

To get Priority: Click “reuse”-button at bottom of h5p-box at H5P-demo – OER – Nettstudiene - then download file and upload in your own installation

[Andrew]

I’m a big fan of H5P but it doesn’t capture data students data (e.g. grade in an activity) and communicate with our LMS, Moodle. We use it as an engagement tool and not for any formative assessment. Thank you for sharing.

[cogdog]

It’s not a limitation of H5P but how your Moodle is set up-- it requires integration by your Moodle admins and possibly using the h5P.com service (this is far afield from my expertise) see Using H5P in Moodle via LTI | H5P

Maybe a question for the people who run your Moodle.

Most of my project use was for providing interactive problem exercises/activities within OER content to reinforce learning, not for assessment.

[cogdog]

Thank you! I am going to experiment right away, this has very useful functionality.

I’m sorry, but it did not work on my WordPress site. The content was imported as a Column Content type and has no functionality like the demo.

[mdiack]

Yes, totally agree. Moodle needs to be properly set up and there many tutorial to help you do this. I will be glad to assist if needed.