Make your OER Engaging

In this chapter,  I’m going to talk more about H5P itself. I met virtually with David Wiley. One of the things I’ve been thinking about from that discussion is he mentioned that OER in the U.S. has fringed into subgroups. He made a comment about there being a small group with the focus of using OER to improve learner engagement. When I was introduced to OER I was initially focused on the “saving money for students” aspect. With David’s comment, I started thinking about OER and student engagement.

Coincidently, I’m doing a presentation for Idaho State University’s Open Ed Week entitled “Make Your OER Engaging: How to Create an Active Learning Environment with H5P“. While H5P has a lot of uses. In the traditional sense, H5P is relatively easy for the teacher to create content and push that information to their students. View the following picture and video for example:

H5P Elements in a Moodle Book
As you can see from the video, I like to use the H5P content types as a self-check so a student can check their own understanding or illustrate an idea. One of the other things that I’m utilizing H5P is to make the students content creators as well. I do this for two reasons; (1) I think learners get more expertise when they have to explain a concept to others and (2) the very thing they create becomes evidence of my desired learning outcomes. I’ve been able to use the Moodle LMS to accomplish this type of learning environment where students publishes H5P. View the following picture and video for example:
H5P Elements in a Moodle Forum
Again I come back to the idea that OER works best in a community effort. I am hopeful that H5P can be another tool in the toolbox that as a community we can create engaging interactive OER together.​

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