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.