H5P Symposium - OER Fund

Project Title	H5P Symposium
Principal Investigator	Kayli Johnson
Co-Applicants	Simon Lolliot, Assistant Professor of Teaching, Psychology, Faculty of Arts,
Faculty	Science
Funding Year	2022
Project Summary	H5P is a free open-source html5 tool that can be used to create flexible and interactive open practice questions as well as opportunities for interactive content delivery. When students complete practice questions requiring them to actively recall information from memory (i.e., retrieval practice), they significantly outperform their peers who spend the same amount of time re-reading the same information. Several traditional publishers have developed online homework systems to offer students retrieval practice; however, these systems are only available behind a paywall and do not allow easy customization, open content sharing, or student authoring. UBC has just launched the UBC H5P Tool, which allows faculty to create free and open interactive h5p elements. Aligned with the timing of this launch, the H5P Symposium is a two-day symposium designed to introduce and/or deepen faculty’s knowledge about h5p and to facilitate the creation of interactive elements in a supported environment. The H5P Symposium will introduce 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 offer studio time with experienced content creators to introduce the authoring platform and consultation clinics to help brainstorm how h5p could be used in a particular faculty member’s context. H5P elements created using the UBC H5P Tool (or an independently installed instance of h5p) can be embedded within a learning management system (e.g. Canvas) or any website (e.g. WordPress). Unlike traditional online homework systems, h5p also offers opportunities for students to participate in content creation. The requested funds would allow the H5P Symposium to have a keynote session that would give the symposium a solid pedagogical grounding around the importance of formative assessment. Having such a keynote is important as it will align the use of an open tool with sound pedagogical practices. The funding would also help us recognize symposium contributors and encourage participants to complete the post-symposium survey to help us evaluate the success of the event.
Grant type	Rapid Innovation
Funded Amount	$1,340