H5P in LearnJCU

H5P is an external tool that has been integrated into LearnJCU. It affords the creation of interactive and rich web content that can enhance learner-content interactions in your subject site.

According to Moore (1989), there are three kinds of interactions in distance education; learner-learner, learner-content, and learner-teacher.  Even though Moore made these observations before the advent of the Internet and online learning, the principles still apply.  Moore proposed that the more of these three types of interactions, the more effective the learning experience.  This was confirmed by a review of the literature (Bernard et al., 2009), which found that the more interactions in a subject, and in particular of the learner-content and learner-learner types, the higher the academic achievement.

...And so what does this all mean? Well, if you can create content that encourages students to interact with it, then this will promote learning.  H5P can do just that. To find out more, first explore the content types found in the H5P Examples Library. Then following that, review the information below.

Creating H5P content in a LearnJCU subject site

Reusing H5P content created by JCU

Follow step 1 and 2 in the above presentation.

Choosing H5P items

Take a look at the H5P periodic table below (made in H5P!) and click on an element to go to see more information about that H5P item. Follow this link for additional help on choosing H5P items.

H5P content types - visualised as a periodic table | Stuart R Mealor | CC BY-NC-ND

Resources

References

  • Bernard, R. M., Abrami, P.C., Borokhovski, E., Wade, C. A., Tamin, R. M., Surkes, M. A., & Bethel, E. C. (2009). A Meta-Analysis of Three Types of Interaction Treatments in Distance Education. Review of Educational Research, 79(3), 1243-1289. JSTOR.
  • Moore, M.G . (1989). Editorial: Three types of interaction. American Journal of Distance Education, 3(2), 1-6.