9:30 AM – 10:00 AM

Registration + Breakfast

10:00 AM – 10:15 AM

H5P Welcome + Opening Remarks

Speakers:

• Nils Viken, Senior Director, Sales, H5P

• Kelly Choi, Community Manager, H5P

10:15 AM - 10:50 AM

H5P Roadmap and Community Update

Join us for an overview of the H5P product roadmap, where we'll share recent developments, upcoming enhancements, and our vision for the future of interactive content creation. Learn about key priorities, planned features, and how we're continuing to support engaging teaching and learning experiences through H5P.

Speakers:

• Nils Viken, Senior Director, Sales, H5P

• Kelly Choi, Community Manager, H5P

10:50 AM - 11:30 AM

Designing Adaptive Learning Pathways with H5P: Moving from Interactivity to Pedagogy-Driven Learning

Interactive digital content is now widely used in higher education, yet much online learning still mirrors traditional delivery models where students passively consume videos or readings. While H5P enables educators to create engaging quizzes, interactive videos, and branching activities, the true pedagogical potential of these tools emerges when interactivity is intentionally integrated into learning design. The introduction of adaptive release capabilities provides new opportunities to move beyond isolated interactive activities toward structured learning pathways that respond to learner progress.

This presentation explores how adaptive release can be used to design purposeful learning sequences where access to content or activities is guided by learner interaction, completion, or demonstrated understanding. Rather than presenting all learning materials simultaneously, adaptive release enables educators to scaffold learning by revealing content progressively, allowing students to engage with concepts in a staged and supported manner.

Drawing on innovative implementations developed at the University of New England, the session will showcase practical examples of how multiple H5P activity types—such as interactive videos, knowledge-check quizzes, reflective prompts, and branching scenarios—can be combined to support adaptive progression within a learning module. These examples illustrate how interactive activities can function together as a coherent learning pathway that supports formative feedback, learner engagement, and progressive knowledge development.

Through a live demonstration, participants will see how a traditionally linear online module can be transformed into a dynamic learning experience in which learners actively interact with content and demonstrate understanding before progressing further. The design approach is grounded in established pedagogical frameworks including Constructive Alignment and Mastery Learning, ensuring that adaptive release supports meaningful learning rather than functioning merely as a technical feature.

The session concludes with practical design patterns and reusable strategies that educators and learning designers can adopt when implementing adaptive learning pathways using H5P.

Participants will leave with concrete ideas for moving from standalone interactive activities to coherent, pedagogy-driven adaptive learning experiences.

Speaker:

• Dr Kashmira Dave, Senior Lecturer in Academic Development at the University of New England

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Smart Tutorials the revolution (mass deployment of Smart Import)

Using Smart import we accomplished what we had been trying to do for years. Through action research methodologies we engaged students and staff to transform didactic teaching to case based learning by creating "Smart Tutorials" to pre-load their learning content for each session. This outlines the journey and the iterative processes that revolutionised our classroom delivery. From these successes we went on to create a course design template for our short courses with blended delivery, reducing course build time by 2/3's. Come see what Smart Import can do to change your institution.

Speaker:

• Scott Hallman - Elearning technologist, Otago Medschool Christchurch

12:00 PM - 1:15 PM

Networking Lunch Break

13:15 - 1:45 PM

Immersive Learning with 360° Virtual Tours and AI

This project explores an experimental AI-enhanced H5P Virtual Tour developed during my postgraduate studies in Learning Design at Victoria University, where I now work as a Learning Designer. Designed as a formative assessment within a microlearning experience, the activity places learners in a 360° AI-generated environment (using Skybox AI), where they explore an immersive media lab and engage with embedded prompts, exemplar videos, and reflective questions. The experience supports active exploration, critical observation, and the application of learning design principles through a discovery-based approach.

The design is informed by ADGIE (an AI-integrated extension of ADDIE) and Backward Design to ensure constructive alignment, while interactive hotspots and gamified elements enhance engagement. Generative AI tools enable rapid prototyping and multimodal content creation, allowing greater focus on pedagogical design. As an exploratory learning design project, this work demonstrates practical approaches to integrating AI and immersive technologies into scalable, engaging learning experiences in higher education.

Speaker:

• Zoe Zhang, Learning Designer, Victoria University

1:45 PM - 2:15 PM

Strategy Sprint: Using H5P's Branching Scenario to Gamify Learning

This presentation reports on the design and implementation of a “Strategy Sprint” game using H5P’s Branching Scenario tool to support active learning in a second-year business strategy course. The activity is designed to help students practise applying core strategic concepts to realistic, time-pressured decision-making, while working collaboratively in role-based teams.

Students are introduced to a contextual case involving a well-known Australian retailer (Myer). Working in groups, students assume executive roles (e.g. CEO, COO) and draw a random “scenario card” that presents a specific strategic problem. Teams must then draw on content from their learnings to formulate a response from the perspective of their assigned role, documenting their decisions and rationale within H5P. After each timed round, students export their responses for later reflection and participate in a facilitated class debrief.

The process is repeated for three rounds, with students rotating roles and encountering new scenarios to broaden their exposure to different strategic perspectives. The Strategy Sprint is repeated later in the semester, using a new set of scenarios that require students to integrate material from subsequent weeks.

The talk will outline the pedagogical rationale for using branching scenarios and gamification in a strategy curriculum, walk through the design and technical setup of the H5P activity, and discuss how role rotation and repeated play are used to deepen conceptual understanding and improve students’ confidence in applying strategy tools.

Preliminary reflections on running the game in class, including student engagement, perceived learning benefits, and planned refinements, will also be shared.

Speakers:

• Benedict Ciantar, Learning Designer, RMIT University

2:15 PM - 2:45 PM

Interactive Learning Quality and AI: Insights from La Trobe’s Award-Winning H5P

This session explores how we use the principles of Accessibility, Quality, Usability, Scalability and Sustainability to bring subjects to life with active learning in the age of AI, showcasing the winning branching scenario of the Third Annual H5P Awards Impactful Gamification category this year.

La Trobe saw a strong uptake of H5P in its Moodle LMS in 2019 led by the H5P Innovators Group. Since then, designers in Education Services have relied on H5P to create high quality interactive multimedia, including the branching scenario showcase.

With growing demand to improve learning experiences, alongside the emerging use of GenAI, the conversation is shifting to how people with limited time are creating content – applying sound information design, practical workflows, and a clear understanding of where H5P is most effective

Speakers:

• Victor Renolds, La Trobe University

• Tonmoy Bhattacharya, Multimedia Designer, La Trobe University

2:45 PM - 3:15 PM

Afternoon Coffee Break

3:15 PM - 3:45 PM

Better together: How H5P Adds Value to Articulate Rise - A Practical Case Study from NATS0009

H5P has become a powerful tool for creating engaging, interactive learning experiences that promote active participation, immediate feedback, and learner autonomy. When combined with Articulate Rise, H5P can significantly extend the pedagogical possibilities of online learning design, particularly in flipped learning environments.

This presentation explores how H5P interactives were embedded within Articulate Rise modules in NATS0009, a subject from the University Preparatory Program in Nursing at Western Sydney University. Designed to support a flipped learning approach, the modules introduce key concepts before class, enabling students to engage with foundational knowledge at their own pace and arrive better prepared for face-to-face learning activities.

Through a practical case study, participants will see how H5P activities were used to transform passive content into active learning experiences. Interactive knowledge checks and immediate feedback opportunities encouraged students to test their understanding, reinforce key concepts, and engage more deeply with the learning materials. The session will showcase examples of embedded H5P activities and discuss the pedagogical considerations, design decisions, and technical workflow that informed their implementation. Participants will leave with practical ideas for integrating H5P into Rise courses, enhancing flipped learning experiences, and creating more engaging and learner-centred online environments.

Speakers:

• Dolores Turro, Online Learning Environment Designer, Western Sydney University The College

3:45 PM - 4:15 PM

The Cost of Interactivity: Matching H5P Investment to Learning Intent

H5P practice often rests on some quiet assumptions. That more interactivity helps, that more content types add value, that engagement is reason enough to build, or that piling on interaction inevitably overloads the learner. This talk is a reflection on what happens when you start to examine those assumptions in your own work, when you notice that authoring effort is finite, that every interaction carries a cost, and that some of the most elaborate things you've built may not have been doing the work you assumed.

The reflection turns on a shift in what "effort" refers to. We usually mean the learner's. But the more useful question may be about the designer's. How much authoring investment does a given learning intent actually warrant, and do we keep that proportionate to the cognitive work at hand? Over-building an intent that a simpler treatment would serve is the failure we rarely examine in ourselves.

Two undergraduate subjects anchor the reflection. In a first-year foundational subject, a modest image hotspot built to support office-documentation literacy unexpectedly revealed something else entirely. Students lacked the underlying digital literacy the subject had assumed they arrived with, from where they saved files to how they named them. A low-investment interaction turned out to be doing diagnostic work no elaborate scenario was needed to do, surfacing a hidden assumption in the design itself. A third-year applied subject offers the contrast. Productive failure is a high-demand intent that can justify high authoring effort, where it is worth asking when that investment pays and when it does not.

This is not a method to adopt so much as a question to hold. Before building, how much authoring effort does this intent deserve, and what might even a modest interaction reveal about the learners we thought we knew?

Speaker:

• Elizabeth Georgiades, Senior Learning Experience Designer, Torrens University Australia

4:15 PM - 4:30 PM

Closing Remarks + Thank You

Speakers:

• Nils Viken, Senior Director, Sales, H5P

• Kelly Choi, Community Manager, H5P

4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

NETWORKING RECEPTION

Join your fellow attendees and keep the momentum going at our Networking Reception. Mingle with fellow attendees and speakers for meaningful conversations and spontaneous connections. Whether you're diving deeper into the day's insights or simply enjoying good company, this is your chance to unwind and engage with fellow attendees.