D2L Purchase of H5P

From this D2L news release: H5P Group was found­ed in 2014, and is the cre­ator of H5P, the cut­ting-edge plat­form for cre­at­ing rich HTML5 con­tent by offer­ing a free, user-friend­ly, web-based inter­face that helps edu­ca­tors, mar­keters, and busi­ness­es devel­op inter­ac­tive con­tent. H5P’s inno­v­a­tive suite of over 60 inter­ac­tive con­tent types, along with its AI-pow­ered Smart Import Tool, helps peo­ple to cre­ate, share, and reuse enriched course mate­ri­als to boost learn­ing out­comes.

Build­ing on its 25 years of learn­ing trans­for­ma­tion, D2L is com­mit­ted to invest­ing in and con­tribut­ing to the H5P com­mu­ni­ty as it helps more edu­ca­tors deliv­er bet­ter learn­ing expe­ri­ences, both to D2L Bright­space users and beyond. D2L has helped deliv­er enhanced con­tent cre­ation through its inte­gra­tion with H5P for many years. Through its ded­i­ca­tion to the learn­ing moment, D2L is com­mit­ted to sup­port­ing the H5P open-source com­mu­ni­ty as it con­tin­ues to dri­ve inno­v­a­tive and qual­i­ty con­tent inter­ac­tives. In join­ing the H5P com­mu­ni­ty, D2L rein­forces its ded­i­ca­tion to pro­vid­ing pow­er­ful learn­ing expe­ri­ences to trans­form learn­ing around the world.

D2L has added H5P to its Cre­ator + pack­age. North Island Col­lege has not pur­chased the Cre­ator+ pack­age but maybe in future if H5P use is promi­nent at NIC — we can con­sid­er this pack­age for embed­ded build­ing of H5P with­in Bright­space.

From this H5P news release:

We have grown and pros­pered tremen­dous­ly over the last ten years thanks to the vig­i­lant efforts of all of us in the H5P Com­mu­ni­ty. We start­ed as a small group. Some of the oth­er Core Team mem­bers and I were cod­ing and answer­ing forum requests full-time dur­ing the first few years. Many of us were spread­ing the word about H5P in con­fer­ences around the world. Now, H5P is used at scale, world­wide. The rapid increase in adop­tion has caused the H5P Core Team to strug­gle to keep up with the community’s devel­op­ments. The Core Team is grow­ing, but not fast enough.

Today, I am hum­bled to announce, the H5P Core Team is join­ing D2L. The orga­ni­za­tion respon­si­ble for H5P is no longer just a small team of 30 head­quar­tered in Nor­way. The com­pa­ny behind H5P is now more than 1000 employ­ees strong, with a glob­al pres­ence.

Our first release as D2L enables com­mu­ni­ty mem­bers to con­tribute more eas­i­ly. D2L is keep­ing us as a ded­i­cat­ed prod­uct group under the lead­er­ship of Pres­i­dent Stephen Laster. It will be led by me and the rest of the orig­i­nal H5P team, with oth­er H5P con­tri­bu­tions being made by D2L from oth­er units. The vision and direc­tion of H5P remains the same. There will be even greater focus on H5P as an open, trans­par­ent and com­mu­ni­ty dri­ven project.

H5P will of course con­tin­ue to be open source. The devel­op­ment will be boost­ed with more H5P Core Team resources and bet­ter facil­i­ta­tion for com­mu­ni­ty par­tic­i­pa­tion.

I look for­ward to con­tin­u­ing our hard work towards imple­ment­ing the vision of H5P. Now, with a lot more avail­able resources.

We will con­tin­ue to empow­er every­one to cre­ate, share and reuse inter­ac­tive con­tent with a much larg­er orga­ni­za­tion back­ing and coor­di­nat­ing all our efforts.