About the project

 
H5P’s goal is to enable everyone to create better content faster. We want to empower everyone to create, share and reuse interactive content!
 

Introduction

There are lots of barriers for creating, sharing and reusing interactive content. There are copyright issues, technical issues, complex authoring tools and huge problems with compatibility between different types of content formats, authoring tools and publishing plattforms. H5P is breaking down these barriers. 

By making it easy for professional content creators and publishers to create, maintain and reuse rich Internet content, H5P will empower creatives to create richer and better experiences more efficiently.

Who’s behind H5P? 

H5P is a community driven project. Currently there are some companies that are doing the heavy lifting, and we hope to see more companies and volunteers joining us soon.

H5P Group, a company co-founded by the open source companies Amendor AS and Cerpus AS, is currently the driving force behind H5P, with a growing team of talented engineers dedicated to H5P. This team is called The H5P Core Team and has extensive experience with development and design of open source ed-tech and is located in Tromsø, Norway. 

H5P also cooperate with other partners to make sure that H5P plays well with others and delivers the best experiences possible.

Who uses H5P? 

H5P is as of March 2018 used on more than 30 000 web sites. It is used by thousands of universities, enterprises, school districts, schools, armies and other organizations. Some of the largest educational institutions in the world uses H5P and almost all of the most famous universities uses H5P. Some for MOOCs and other projects, other in bigger ways as a tool rolled out througout the entire organization. Some organizations also allow learners to use H5P both as an authoring tool and a learning tool.

History

  • The first H5P prototype of H5P was released January 25th 2013 for Drupal.
  • The first stable release was May 15th 2014 for WordPress.
  • The H5P Core Team was established August 1st 2014.
  • The first stable version for Drupal was released the 11th of November 2014.
  • The first stable version for Moodle was released March 14th 2017

 

The future of H5P

In the future H5P will be more and more community driven. We will create an H5P association governing the project. Alll our code, case trackers etc. will always be available. You'll find code on GitHub and issues in Jira. Community members will be encoraged and supported to improve and continue the development of H5P.

Join our team by getting involved in H5P!