2024 H5P Symposium

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Online

Active learning techniques are now seen as the gold standard in many classrooms (Freeman et al., 2014; Shi et al., 2019; Tutal & Yazar, 2022). To make room for interactive classrooms, many instructors have moved their content online. The shift to online education has been sharply accelerated by the recent COVID-19 pandemic (Pokhrel et al., 2021). Of concern is that online materials often mimic the passive learning that instructors hope to avoid in the first place. For instance, the use of video lectures in lieu of classroom lectures has significantly increased and instructors and students believe that the use of online instructional videos increase educational achievements, the literature shows that traditional videos lead to worse performance than consuming the same information through text (Furnham, Gunter, & Green, 1990). The challenge, then, is to figure out how to embed interactivity and opportunities for formative assessment back into these passive environments. At this symposium, we aim to showcase a free open-source html tool, H5P, that can be used to embed interactivity back into passive learning materials with a focus on creating interactive videos. During this demonstrate how to make interactive videos that offer opportunities for formative assessment. We will not only discuss how to create these videos, but also explore evidence-based best practices for (a) creating good formative assessment questions, (b) providing timely feedback, and (c) how (and when) to create branching interactive videos that respond and adapt to student feedback. These interactive elements can be authored using UBC’s H5P authoring tool (or an independently installed instance of H5P), then embedded within a learning management system (e.g. Canvas) or any website (e.g. WordPress). In this multi-day H5P symposium, we will introduce you to H5P, demonstrate its strengths and limitations, and highlight successful examples of implementation and course integration for various content types (e.g. multiple choice question sets, auto-graded essays, drag and drop, and interactive videos). We will also offer studio time with the support of experienced content creators to introduce you to the authoring platform and help you brainstorm how it could be used in your context. You are not required to attend every session throughout the day, feel free to attend the sessions that are of interest to you.

Wednesday, February 21

• 9:00am – 10:00am: Keynote: How Interactive Videos Support Learning
  Join us for an exploration of good practice in the generation of educational videos, with a specific focus on the benefits of interactivity.
  Presenter:
  • Cynthia Brame, Assistant Professor of the Practice of Biological Sciences, Vanderbilt University
    
    
• 10:00am – 11:30am: Interactive Videos in Practice
  Building off the keynote, we will introduce you to interactive videos and the different forms they can take. We will share the strengths and limitations of the different types of interactivity (interactive vs. branching interactive) before guiding you step-by-step through the process of building an interactive video. You will have the chance to create questions as we guide you through authoring interactive videos. We will demonstrate how these videos can be embedded into learning management systems (e.g. Canvas) and websites (e.g. WordPress).
  Presenters:
  • Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chemistry, UBCV
  • Simon Lolliot, Associate Professor of Teaching, Psychology, UBCV
    
    
• 11:30pm – 12:30pm: Community Chat: Ask a Technology Developer (Lunch Break)
  Do you have questions about the technical set up or roadmap for UBC’s H5P service? Hang out on the Zoom session during the lunch break to chat with UBC’s LThub developers.
  Presenters:
  • Stephen Michaud, Senior Manager, Learning Applications Integrations & Analytics, CTLT, UBC
  • Richard Tape, Programmer Analysist-WordPress Developer, CTLT, UBCV

• 12:30pm – 2:00pm: Writing and Creating Formative and Inclusive Questions in H5P
  In this workshop we will take you through the merits of formative assessment opportunities as well as the best practices in writing multiple choice questions paying special attention to EDI principles.
  Presenters:
  • Lilly May, Lecturer, Psychology, UBCV
  • Simon Lolliot, Associate Professor of Teaching, Psychology, UBCV
  • Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chemistry, UBCV

Thursday, February 22

• 9:00am – 10:00am: H5P in the Age of AI
  In this keynote, we will hear from H5P CEO Svein-Tore With on H5P and Artificial Intelligence. Svein-Tore Griff With, a.k.a. “Falcon,” has led the development of three different open-source tools for interactive content. The most famous of them is H5P with over 200,000 installations and 200 million users worldwide. Svein-Tore has an engineering background, but does little coding these days and spends a lot of his time working on H5P’s road map instead.
  Presenter:
  • Svein-Tore Griff, Co-Founder of H5P; CEO Joubel
    
    
• 10:00am – 11:50am: Creating Effective Feedback in H5P
  What makes feedback effective? In this session, we will guide you through the best practices in creating feedback for H5P interactivities and the different ways in which they can be embedded within H5P.
  Presenters:
  • Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chemistry, UBCV
  • Simon Lolliot, Associate Professor of Teaching, Psychology, UBCV
    
    
• 12:00pm – 1:00pm: Community Chat: Ask an Educational Developer (Lunch Break)
  What design strategies can be used for ensuring H5P is integrated into your course or learning materials effectively in order to support learning outcomes? Hang out on the Zoom session during the lunch break to chat with UBC’s educational developers and instructional design experts about using H5P to support your learning outcomes and goals.
  Presenters
  • John Cheng, Learning Design Consultant, CTLT
  • Manuel Diaz, Educational Consultant: Learning Design, CTLT
  • Will Engle, Strategist, Open Educational Consultant, CTLT
  • Bosung Kim, Educational Consultant: Learning Design, CTLT
  • Rie Namba, Open Education Resource Developer, CTLT
  • Lucas Wright, Senior Educational Consultant, CTLT
    
    
• 1:30pm – 2:45pm: Closing Plenary: How H5P Is Being Used at UBC
  Faculty from across disciplines (including psychology, chemistry, and language studies) will showcase how they have used h5p in their courses. Each presenter will speak to why they chose h5p and then show examples as to how it was integrated into their course.
  Panelists:
  
  • Roger Beckie, Professor, EOAS, UBCV
  • Strang Burton, Associate Professor of Teaching, Linguistics, UBCV
  • Luisa Canuto, Associate Professor of Teaching & Language Program Director, FHIS, UBCV
  • Fong Chan, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBCV
  • Irene Lueng, Student, Pharmaceutical Sciences, UBCV
  • Kayli Johnson, Associate Professor of Teaching, Chemistry, UBCV (Moderator)
  • Simon Lolliot, Associate Professor of Teaching, Psychology, UBCV (Moderator)

In-Person H5P Studios

In these hands-on studio sessions, bring an assignment, practice problems, or course content and get expert support and help as you work on your H5P projects. These are in-person studios and separate registration is required.

Wednesday February 28; 2 to 3pm (Register here)

Wednesday, March 6; 2 to 3pm (Register here)

Wednesday, March 13: 2 to 3pm (Register here)

Please note: The program is still being developed and more information will be available soon. Visit the 2024 H5P Symposium Website for more info.