From Video to Learning Prop: A Top-down Approach to Improve the Effectiveness of Multimedia Resources in Medical Education

In 2019 a multimedia project named Videolibrary was launched at the Department of Clinical and Biological Sciences of the University of Turin, Italy. The project aims to make video resources available for students attending the MD program in Medicine and Surgery. This article shows the development of e-contents for medical education starting from videos. Media contents, initially produced by an outside supplier, were later reworked by means of H5P, an open-source authoring tool which allows creators to produce reusable interactive contents. The result was the transformation of three 30-40 minute videos into three interactive learning props, hosted on the Moodle platform, that is the Learning Management System used at the University of Turin.