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You might ask, why should I consider making my online course ‘interactive’ and how will it benefit my students?

H5P & UDL

We can use UDL (Universal Design for Learning) to frame how H5P can benefit your students.

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is a framework that attempts to minimize the struggles students might have with the subject matter they are learning. UDL addresses the fact every student is different and, therefore, every student learns in a different way.

What does UDL mean to you as an instructor?
• Multiple ways to engage students.
• Multiple ways to present the learning content.
• Multiple ways for students to demonstrate or express their learning outcomes.

Engagement:

There are over 30 content types of H5P that you could use in your teaching, for example, Branching Scenario for a case study analysis, Emoji Cloud to collect quick students’ feedback on a lecture or Word Cloud for students to collaborate working on ‘use one word to describe engagement’.

Presentation:

As you may know, each student is unique, they come to your class with different learning styles. Some of them get the best learning experience and result from watching videos, some of them might prefer reading the content instead, and some students learn best from doing an activity relevant to the subject. With H5P, you can present the learning content in various ways to suit different learners.

Representation:

Give students the freedom to pick their own way to represent what they have learned. For example, if students need to present their group project at the end of the semester, instead of asking each group to make a PowerPoint slide and present in the class, also consider giving students the authority to use Course Presentation to create an asynchronous interactive presentation slide, or record their own presentation video and use Interactive Video to add interactive questions for viewers to engage while watching the presentation video, or create an Interactive Book to provide a ‘brochure’ way to demonstrate their group project.