RUMPUS BLOG CELEBRATES 1 YEAR Public engagement next steps

1. RUMPUS BLOG - launched
DR ALEXANDRA OKADA
EXPLORING, UNDERSTANDING AND
COCREATING FUN IN LEARNING

2. User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021
The Rumpus Blog was launched a year ago.
So far, there is an increasing number of visitors from America and Europe
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April

3. The most frequent visitors are from USA, UK and Brazil.
In addition, there are also new followers from Austria and Belgium.
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April
User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021

4. After 1 year, the blog reached 100 active users in average
It reached 185 users through two events of CONNECT and OLAF in February.
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April
User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021

5. Most of our visitors (86.2%) acess our blog using desktop.
However, there is a small number of users (13.8%) from mobile devices
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April
User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021

6. Top 4 pages accessed by users
Description Authors
Homepage (all posts)
Project OLAF Ale & Kieron
Digital Presentation Emily & Sarah
Project Connect Ale
Different VR Platforms Mark
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April
User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021
The top two visited pages were the projects OLAF and CONNECT
The top two visited posts were Digital Presentations and Different VR platforms

7. Sustainabilty
& Education
conference
OLAF
network
CONNECT
open
schooling
network
1000 teachers
secondary & primary school
6000 practitioners
10,000 HE students
and lifelong learners
700 Policy members
Open
Education
Global
Conference
LAF
online learning and fun
Source: Google analytics
Wordpress – 30th of April
User Analytics from Apr 2020 to Apr 2021
Two large Networks (CONNECT AND OLAF) and two International Events
(OEGLOBAL and LMSE conferences) incressed our posts’ views

8. FUN PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT
WITH RESEARCH about FUN

9. What is public
engagement ?
“Engagement is a two-way
process, involving
interaction and listening,
with the goal of
generating mutual
benefit.” NCCPE, 2021

10. It's time to get creative…
This Photo by Unknown Author is licensed under CC BY-SA
Why should PUBLIC
ENGAGEMENT be fun ?
Not another consultation!
Making community engagement
informal and fun

11. Public engagement
is a key pathway for Responsible
Research and Innovation (RRI) that
enables scientific communities to align
their research with the societal needs,
views and expectations (EC, 2021)
FUN is vital for embedding innovation
with and for an “engaged” society.

12. “Public engagement”
initates at
the START of the research;
not when it is FINISHed…
In the context
Responsible Research
and Innovation

13. VIDEO
CLIP
(Oxford)
Youtube
Vimeo
Blog
Articles
(NCCPE)
NERC
.
Wikipedia
Twitter,
Facebook,
Reddit,
Instagram,
Pinterest
LinkedIn
OUTREACH
entails research-related
communications
initiatives directed to
the general public,
rather than
the research community
SOCIAL
MEDIA
LSE

14. is designed to communicate
& engage the general public
with enjoyment
OUTREACH
LAF
online learning and fun

15. PARTICIPATORY
RESEARCH
integrates scientific investigation
with education and political action
supported by:
• Group discussions
• Collective/personal experiences
• Action-research

16. PARTICIPATORY
RESEARCH
supported by intrinsically
motivated approaches:
• Community-based research
• Collaborative Reflection-action
• Participatory arts

17. from RUMPUS Blog to a RRI BOOK
Editors: DR ALEXANDRA OKADA; DR MIMI TATLOW-GOLDEN;
PROF REBECCA FERGRUSON and PROF KIERON SHEEHY
ENGAGING METHODS TO EXPLORE
FUN IN EDUCATION

18. Current Projects 2021
Dr Linda Plowright-Pepper
Children’s wellbeing
CONNECT open schooling with fun participatory approaches in Science Education
Alexandra Okada
OLAF - Online Learning and Fun
Alexandra Okada, Kieron Sheehy
Constructions & applications of fun in Classic FM’s online music education resources
Emily Dowdeswell, Kieron Sheehy, Mimi Tatlow-Golden
The role of fun in embodied learning through cross-curricular dance/movement
Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Linda Plowright-Pepper
(*) The roles of fun through learning: a case study of Coaches Across Continents
Sarah Huxley [Supervisors: Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Rebecca Ferguson, Kieron Sheehy]
(*) How fun comes to matter to children in an English primary school
Emily Dowdeswell [Supervisors: Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Kieron Sheehy, Christine O’Farrelly]
Fun in my life: Nepalese children’s photos of fun
Sarah Huxley, Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Anna Childs
Fun, Big Books, inclusion and successful kindergartens
Kieron Sheehy
Dr Mark Childs - Durham
Educational Technology
Dr Mimi Tatlow-Golden
Interd. Studies of Childhood & Youth
(Obs: (*) PhD research projects)

19. ENGAGING METHODS TO EXPLORE FUN IN EDUCATION
Abstracts
31/ 08
chapter outline
s RUMPUS
Ale, Mimi, Rebecca & Kieron
PUBLISHER Ubiquity Press
CC BY SA – Open License
RRI BOOK

20. Responsible Research and Innovation Book:
Engaging research methods to explore FUN in Education
Edited by Ale Okada, Mimi Tatlow-Golden, Rebecca Fergurson and Kieron Sheehy
Ale is preparing a set of posts
with video-interviews about
methods used by researchers to
explore engagement, enjoyment
and Fun in Education
Each researcher will be invited to
describe their
research exploring
"fun" and authoring their own
posts...(initial draft of a chapter)
”Fun” interactive workshops
will be provided in events
about these methods to
generate questions, reflections
and discussions with fun.
After interactions with our
blog visitors, authors will
edit their posts into a
chapter for researcher
practitioners (part of a
APPROACH

21. Responsible Research and Innovation Book:
Engaging research methods to explore FUN in Education
Drawing to explore childrens’ self-concept - Mimi Tatlow-Golden
Video-interview Post Events led by Author Article led by author
APPROACH

22. Fergurson
Sheehy
Okada
Tatlow-
Golden
Childs
Balloon
Consensus
All members invited
Physical
movement
Children’
drawing
Linda
Emily
Sarah
& Anna

23. Some Special OU guests & External experts
Dancemotion
Photo-
elicitation
Play
V Cooper
N Canning
A. Buckler
A. Twiner

24. Synopsis
This ebook invites authors to discuss with readers
about the value of fun in education.
Authors will be interacting with readers
through engaging research methods
These fun methods will enable
individuals and communities to join and cocreate
enjoyable experiences for research and learning.

25. Aims
• Examine fun in education from RRI perspective for aligning research
and innovation with participants needs responsibly and enjoyably.
• Identify learners’ challenges, needs and priorities – locally or globaly
with data and evidence to explore why fun in education is important.
• Describe influential/novel methods underpinned by relevant
principles, successful practices as well engaging procedures, tools and
scenarios.
• Discuss interventions and findings with open data, meaningful
approaches and fruitful recommendations.

26. Guidelines (draft)
• Template for presenting an abstract
• Self-Assessment and peer-review
• Principles and actions…

27. TITLE
Authors, affiliation, country
Issue/scenario with data (evidence)
Innovative method used
Literature; Principles/concepts
Purpose
Research Question
Methodology; procedures; tools
Participants
Findings successful practices and limitations
Discussion with recommendations
Template for presenting an abstract
What is the key
problem for using this
method / application?
Why Is your method/
design innovative?
Which principles
support the method?
What is the aim of
your study?
Tips
Why Fun?

28. • What are the key theoretical ideas or concepts (including fun) that underpin your message?
• How does it relate to existing theoretical work in the field?
• How does it relate to empirical work in the field?
• How does it relate to policy or practice?
• What is distinctive about this work (in relation to fun)?
• So what? – why does it matter? Why is it an original contribution to knowledge?
Self-assessment & Peer-review...
Tips

29. Object => the method;
Methodology=> approach for validating the method (design/implement/refine)
• My claim is that ...
• My work is original/innovative because…
• My work is significant/responsible because…
• My work is rigorous/open because…
Tips
Principles and actions…

30. Writing authoritatively
vs a tiresome necessity written as an afterthought
Tiny text – compress rhetorical act of argumentation into a small
textual space; but they are large in relation to the work they can
accomplish.
Kamler and Thomson, 2008 (pages 85-86) recommended by Littleton’s
workshop
Tips
Principles and actions…

31. 1. Locate – ‘mind the gap’/identifying your niche/ locating the paper in relation to current
debates in the field (originality); => relevant for local/global society
2. Focus – identify key issues/research questions being pursued/problems the paper
addresses;
3. Anchor – establish the basis for the argument by outlining the research, sample,
methods of analysis (rigour)
4. Report – summarise the major findings pertinent to the argument
5. Argue – open out the argument, pointing to the significance (the ‘So what? question) of
the findings; indicate a point of view/interpretation/ returning to
6. Support Fun – design, refine and communicate the meaning of fun Tips
Principles and actions…

32. Schedule:
• 2021 May – Invitations
• 2021 August – Abstracts produced by the team
• 2021 September – Abstracts produced by the guests
• 2021 November – Full draft about the chapter
• 2022 January – Peer review
• 2022 February – Final chapter
• 2022 March – Typesetting
• 2022 April – Launch