Choosing your OER Tools: A Tool Look Book
4.8 H5P for Reflection and Deep Learning
Theresa Huff
H5P for Reflection
These H5P types are unique in that they let your learners respond to content in the OER itself and take their content with them. This can make your content feel more relevant and a good use of your learners’ time while encouraging deeper thinking and practice.Â
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H5P for Reflection
H5P Cornell Notes
This tool allows you to offer a place and prompts for your students to take guided notes alongside text, audio, or video. When completed, the learner can copy and paste the notes on their own document for reference or to submit to you.
H5P Documentation Tool
This tool allows creators to structure guided writing processes. This can be used to help learners set goals, reflect on the content, or create an outline of their own. Once complete, the learner can download a copy to their desktop or copy and paste the text to their own document for reference or submission to you.
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H5P Structure Strip
This tool allows you to create a more structured scaffold for your learners than H5P’s Cornell Notes or Documentation Tool. You can provide content with images, videos, or audio, use specific prompts, and restrict the number of words learners can put in their responses. Just like the H5P above, learners can copy and paste the completed text onto a word document of their own for reference or to turn into you.
More examples of H5P Structure Strip
Sustainability:Â H5P is built into Pressbooks and is therefore easy to update or share. However, the H5P Team is not actively maintaining this tool.
H5P for Deep Learning
While all of the H5P types shown so far can stand alone, many of them can be used within more complex H5P types. The following types can be used to both provide content and formative assessment, but some can be used as interactive infographics, interactive unit studies, serious games, self-based learning, and whatever else you can imagine.
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H5P for Deep Learning
H5P Branching Scenario
This tool can be used to create choose-your-own-adventure type, self-paced learning scenarios and other types of adaptive learning. Creators can incorporate all sorts of media and other H5P types with a branching scenario, and learners can make choices and solve problems that support deeper learning.
More examples of Branching Scenario
How to guide for Branching Scenario
H5P Virtual Tour
This tool allows creators to make layers of individual scenes made up of images, use them as a flat image or augmented reality, and add questions, text, and interactions to provide content, practice, or exploration.
Introduction to the Orchestra, Winner of H5P Academy Awards 2024 Best Use of Multimedia, was created by Theresa Huff from Idaho State University.
More examples of Virtual Tour
How To guide for Virtual Tour
H5P Course Presentation
This tool is similar to a PowerPoint or Google slides presentation but offers learners content and practice options by allowing a variety of other H5P types to be built within the slide deck. There are many of these used within this Pressbook.
Organic Chemistry Tutorial, H5P Academy Award 2024 Nominee for Best Use of H5P Course Presentation, was created by Carl Doige and Kerry Davie at Okanagan College.
Other H5P Academy Award Nominees for Best Use of H5P Course Presentation
How To guide for Course Presentation
H5P Interactive Video
This tool allows creators to link or upload a video and add a variety of different interactivity to it. This can help engage your learners and let them review key information as they watch. There are many of these used within this Pressbook.
H5P Academy Award 2024 Nominee for Best Use of Multimedia (H5P Interactive Video)
How To guide for Interactive Video
H5P Interactive Book
This tool allows you to create a mini-book with content and/or practice and/or interactivity using a variety of different multimedia and a variety of different H5P types.
Building Monuments, Building Society: A Virtual Field Trip, Winner of H5P Academy Award 2024 Best Use of Interactive Book, was created by Felicia Wun from UH Online Innovation Center.
Other H5P Academy Award 2024 Nominees for Best Use of Interactive Book
H5P Column Tool
This tool can be used to create everything from an interactive infographic to a complete self-guided unit study. Like the tools above, creators can use it to incorporate a variety of media and a variety of H5P types for content and/or practice.
Authentic Materials, Winner of H5P Academy Award 2024 Outstanding Visual Design, was created by Amber Hoye from Boise State University. Read how she built this column tool.
Another Winner of H5P Academy Award 2024 Best Use of Course Presentation, David Lohner and his team from Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) used Course Presentations inside a Column Tool.
More examples of H5P Column Tool
How To guide for Column Tool
H5P Game Map
This is H5P’s newest tool. It allows creators to “gamify” learning by creating stages or quests that may be locked or hidden until learners complete certain tasks. The “game board” can be any image you choose, and each stage or quest can include a variety of content and/or interactivity with practice using a variety of H5P types.
See an H5P Game Map that allows French students interactive practice around town.Â
More examples of H5P Game Map
Hopefully, the last few pages have gotten your creative ideas flowing for your own OER. Though this isn’t all the H5P types (you can see all of them at H5P.org), the ones demonstrated are likely ones you could use in your OER. H5P is easy to build for you or your students. Next, we’ll walk you through how to get started creating or importing H5P in preparation for our summer H5P Jam Session.
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