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Notes from the H5P conference, Troms\u00f8, Norway, 11\u201313th September 2017<\/h2>\n

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Empowering educators<\/h2>\n

Around two years ago we were looking for ways to bring activities into web pages and increase the opportunity for students and educators to start to use WordPress not just for blogging but for delivering parts of their curriculum. The use of WordPress has grown from small needs in one or two faculties to wider use across the institution.<\/p>\n

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Svein-Tore Griff With presents the keynote (photo. Stephan Caspar)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Our 2016 ALT-C talk<\/a> was subtitled \u201c Putting the creative power back in the hands of academics\u201d. Of course, there are a number of applications for the creation of rich multimedia learning objects, but many of these require a license and many hours of training and development. Whilst an application such as Articulate Storyline could create more sophisticated and bespoke learning objects, those created in H5P require little developer knowledge or training.<\/p>\n

What is H5P?<\/h2>\n

H5P<\/a> provides a set of content types which can be embedded within WordPress, Drupal, and Moodle, and with some additional tweaking can be included in Blackboard or corporate CMS.<\/p>\n

Built by a group of developers in Troms\u00f8, Norway, H5P has been growing steadily and is used in Universities, K12, Professional Development and a host of online education providers.<\/p>\n

Creating content at the Norwegian Room for Learning. H5P is opensource and built around the principle of sharing.<\/p>\n

You can create your own content from over 45 content types, starting from scratch and working your way through a tool, or you can download someone else\u2019s content according to permissions and either modify or embed unchanged.<\/p>\n

The first H5P Conference brought together developers, academics, and trainers from around the world, as far as the US, Japan, and Australia. The programme covered the work that is already taking place, with much sharing of content and new content type development. Here are some of the highlights, conference resources can be found here.<\/p>\n

The keynote<\/h2>\n

Svein-Tore Griff With\u2019s talk inspired and amazed in equal measure and revealed plans to create a content hub so that users could find resources from around the world that they could use. One of most interesting aspects was a way to ensure copyright clearance and permissions from inside the hub itself, ensuring careful management of copyright in the reuse of content.<\/p>\n

Other announcements centered on refining some of the content types and making it easier to open up to more sophisticated and complex objects, including the use of active surface to better present image galleries.<\/p>\n

There was the thoughtful challenge from the conference around H5P\u2019s mission statements and it was clear that educators and developers had taken ownership and responsibility for H5P in the same way as its founders.<\/p>\n