H5P Melbourne Community Event

AI is no longer “emerging” in higher education—it’s embedded across assessment design, student study habits, academic workflows, and institutional systems. This session reframes the conversation away from tools and toward design intent, governance, and trust: how universities modernise with AI while preserving integrity, agency, and the human foundations of learning. Drawing on real examples—from culturally stewarded co-design in language learning to governance lessons when AI crosses from “support” into “authority”—participants will explore where trust fractures first and what it takes to hold the line.

Designed for H5P authors, learning designers, and edtech practitioners, the talk offers a practical, human‑centred lens for AI‑enabled learning experiences—highlighting transparency, contestability, and dignity as non‑negotiables when AI enters feedback, assessment, and support workflows.

Open educational resources (OER) support barrier-free learning by reducing costs and improving access to educational materials. OER are flexible and take many forms including textbooks, ancillary resources, and standalone H5P activities that others can reuse or adapt. When developed in online ebook platforms that embed H5P, OER can shift from a static information source to a holistic, living learning experience. In Pressbooks, for example, H5P can elevate an open textbook from read only content to an interactive learning resource.

This presentation showcases open H5P examples across platforms, drawing on work produced through Deakin’s five-year OER grant program. Over this period, H5P has become central to developing engaging, high-quality resources. Using the Pressbooks platform, Deakin has produced 15 open books with increasingly embedded H5P, strengthening both accessibility and interactivity across these OER.

Using three Deakin-developed open texts, this presentation examines how H5P can be used in the context of OER. It begins with Neonatal Essentials for Nursing and Midwifery, highlighting H5P as a tool for student self-assessment. It then considers accessibility in open texts through Communication and Teamwork Skills to Support Neurodiversity. The presentation concludes with Sustainable Marine Futures, which includes H5P developed in partnership with student contributors.

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.

H5P Course Presentation is one of the most familiar tools in a learning designer's kit, but are we truly unlocking its potential? In this session, we invite you to look beyond the default slide and discover how Course Presentation can be transformed into a powerful, flexible canvas for rich, custom learning experiences.

Our team of learning designers works at the intersection of learning design, visual storytelling, and interactive media. Over time, we have pushed Course Presentation well beyond its conventional use, repurposing it as the engine behind branching scenarios that guide learners through real-world decision making, case studies, dynamic home page navigation hubs, and so forth. Each application challenges the assumption that Course Presentation is simply a digital slideshow.

But great design doesn't happen in isolation. In this session, we will be transparent about our collaborative process: how we work hand-in-hand with graphic designers and multimedia specialists to craft assets, visual systems, and interaction patterns that make our Course Presentations feel like bespoke interactives, indistinguishable from expensive custom-built solutions. We'll share our workflow, from initial concept and wireframing through to asset handoff, H5P build, and quality review.

Attendees will leave with practical ideas they can apply immediately, including design patterns for common use cases, tips for briefing creative colleagues unfamiliar with H5P, and strategies for maintaining visual consistency across a suite of interactives.

Whether you are a solo learning designer or part of a larger team, this session will expand your vision of what Course Presentation can do and inspire you to build something that surprises your learners.

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.

The work of the H5P innovators group at La Trobe University in 2019 resulted in the university wide release of the tool in the LMS, and more than 10,000 H5Ps created in the first year. A study led by members of the group found that students in a fully online first year anatomy subject preferred H5P to static content. Since then, H5P has become a significant tool used by Education Services to enhance subjects in the LMS with high quality interactive multimedia.

Now with the ever demanding need to improve learning experiences, along with some help from GenAI, the conversation is shifting to how people with limited time are creating content – leveraging the essentials of information design, workflows, and how and when H5P is best used.

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.