Create Interactive Videos with H5P

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to you our dear readers. We hope that you had a relaxed holiday and are ready for the coming year of 2017. In 2017, each month we are planning to write one blog post to explore a new tool which might be useful for our innovations in teaching and learning.

If you are interested in any particular tools, just send us an email or reply to the posts. We will be very happy to help you to investigate that if possible.

H5P

This month we would like to introduce H5P, which stands for HTML5 Package. It is a free and open-source content collaboration framework based on JavaScript. The purpose of H5P is to make it easy for everyone to create, share and reuse interactive HTML5 contents, such as Interactive videos, interactive presentations, quizzes, interactive timelines and so on. 

What is good?

What is so good about it? Let's count:

1. It is totally free to use. That's a big win compared to its competitors such as HapYak, ClickView, Verse, or Vidversity.
2. It is by default able to add and replace multimedia files and textual content in all kinds of H5P content types and applications.
3. The contents are mobile friendly.
4. It is very easy to create, edit, reuse, and share the contents.
5. It can be integrated into Drupal, WordPress, and Moodle.

What is not so good?

Well, it is not integrated with Monash Moodle yet. Therefore we are not able to track student activities on that. And to create the interactive videos and other activities, you would have to upload the videos and other resources onto the H5P sites and it creates a possible copyright issue.

What's in it for us?

• Create interactive course presentation:

• Create interesting game quizzes:

• Or my personal favourite, interactive videos:

What are we going to do this semester?

We have created a short interactive video with H5P. And we will work with at lease two academics to try to use H5P interactive videos in their units this semester. At the same time, our Senior Educational Designer Deb will work together with MOULT and eSolution to investigate the possibility to add the H5P plugin into our Monash Moodle. Once it is integrated into our LMS, it won't be long that many of us can use it in our teaching. And if you want to start to explore it now, just go to h5p.org to learn more about what it can do for your online contents.