{"id":19,"date":"2019-10-15T11:36:42","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T10:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2024-09-12T13:43:33","modified_gmt":"2024-09-12T12:43:33","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open University Open Up the Future<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/1rs0g0DMIV8?si=jojElEDh7z320X8A\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Open University\u2019s\u00a0RUMPUS\u00a0 is an interdisciplinary research group based in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wels.open.ac.uk\/\" >WELS\u00a0<\/a>&#8211; The Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies.\u00a0 The group brings together people, practices, research and resources and provides a vibrant research culture for all members.<\/p>\n<p>RUMPUS welcomes academics, professionals, students, teaching staff and curriculum developers from the OU and across the world who are interested in exploring, understanding and cocreating &#8220;fun&#8221; in learning. The group has a wide variety of research interests and approaches including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Innovative Pedagogies<\/li>\n<li>Educational Futures<\/li>\n<li>Childhood<\/li>\n<li>Online Learning<\/li>\n<li>Responsible Research and Innovation<\/li>\n<li>Science Education<\/li>\n<li>Open Schooling<\/li>\n<li>Inclusion and Diversity<\/li>\n<li>Mixed Realities<\/li>\n<li>International Development<\/li>\n<li>Educational Technology<\/li>\n<li>Arts, Creativity and Education<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>RUMPUS meets once a month and organises different activities taking place throughout each semester. These include workshops, webinars, conferences and informal catch-up with coffee and cake. The group also participates in the\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/conference.playthinklearn.net\/blog\/\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/conference.playthinklearn.net');\">Playful Learning annual event<\/a>\u00a0every summer and in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ase.org.uk\/events\/ase-annual-conference-2021-online-in-january-face-face-event-tbc-in-june-or-july\" onclick=\"javascript:urchinTracker ('\/outbound\/article\/www.ase.org.uk');\">ASE \u2013 Association for Science Education international conference<\/a> every winter.<\/p>\n<p>RUMPUS is committed to the OU\u2019s mission\u00a0\u201copen to people, places, methods and ideas\u201d, as well the OU&#8217;s strategy\u00a0\u00a0<u>\u2018students first\u2019\u00a0<\/u>through high-quality research focused on enjoyable and meaningful learning with fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Open University Open Up the Future The Open University\u2019s\u00a0RUMPUS\u00a0 is an interdisciplinary research group based in\u00a0WELS\u00a0&#8211; The Faculty of Wellbeing, Education and Language Studies.\u00a0 The group brings together people, practices, research and resources and provides a vibrant research culture for all members. RUMPUS welcomes academics, professionals, students, teaching staff and curriculum developers from the OU &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\" >Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":892,"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/892"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.open.ac.uk\/blogs\/rumpus\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}