The 2026 UBC H5P Symposium will take place on February 18-19. 2026 via Zoom.
The detailed 2026 Program will be available in late January.
Tentative Program:
February 18:
- 9:30am to 10:00am: Welcome
- 10:00am to 11:00am: Keynote Speaker
More info coming soon! - 11:00am to 11:15am: Break
Hang out in the Zoom session during the break to chat with UBC educational developers about practical tips and tricks for using H5P to effectively support your learning outcomes and goals. - 11:15am to 12:15pm: Lightning Pedagogy Talks
Join us for a set of brief, focused presentations highlighting pedagogical projects powered by H5P. Presenters will share concrete examples of how H5P supported meaningful teaching and learning enhancements and impacts. - 12:15pm to 12:30pm: Break
- 12:30pm to 1:30pm – Practical Demos
See how it’s done with this series of rapid, interactive sessions where presenters lead hands-on demonstrations of their H5P creations. Participants will see how each activity was built and have the opportunity to ask questions about practical design choices and implementation.
February 19:
- 9:30am to 9:40am: Welcome to Day 2
- 9:40am to 11:00am: Practitioner Panel
Join us for a practitioner–expert panel focused on designing the future of interactive learning with H5P, OER, and generative AI. Each panelist will share one key best practice drawn from their own experience creating interactive learning materials. Together, these practices will highlight how sound learning design can be effectively implemented in H5P. The discussion will highlight practical workflows for developing and implementing such practices in H5P, including how generative AI can help and when it is best to avoid using AI. - 11:00am to 11:15am: Break
Hang out in the Zoom session during the break to chat with UBC educational developers about practical tips and tricks for using H5P to effectively support your learning outcomes and goals - 11:15am to 12:15pm: H5P Platform Updates
- 12:15am to 12:30pm Break
- 12:30p, to 1:30pm – Closing Key Note: Teaching with Instructional Video
This talk will present 14 evidence-based principles for how to design effective instructional videos. These instructional design principles for teaching with instructional video are grounded in learning theory and based on more than 200 experiments carried out by the keynote speaker and colleagues. The work represents an example of the progress made in applying the science of learning to education. The session will include an understanding of how meaningful learning works and evidence-based principles for designing effective instructional videos.- Speaker: Richard E. Mayer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Richard E. Mayer is Distinguished Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests involve applying the science of learning to education. His current research is at the intersection of cognition, instruction, and technology, with a special focus on multimedia learning, game-based learning, learning in virtual reality, and learning with animated pedagogical agents. Read more…
- Speaker: Richard E. Mayer, University of California, Santa Barbara
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