With busy work schedules, we often forget to prioritize our wellbeing. It is important to recognize that personal wellbeing is connected to work performance. Integrating wellbeing into workplace culture can help create a nurturing atmosphere where individuals feel appreciated, minimize burnout and stress, and enhance motivation and productivity. Fostering practices such as stress management, mindfulness, and self-care enable us to navigate challenges more efficiently and contribute to a healthier work-life balance and better mental and physical health. 

Topics

• Mind-body connection for self-care

• Wellbeing in work culture

• Counseling and coaching

• Stress management 

• Mindfulness

Education technology in online learning opens up access to quality education for diverse learners, especially learners in remote areas. EdTech tools such as mobile learning applications, multifunctional virtual classrooms, and AI tools help to create a more effective and efficient learning environment for both educators and learners. EdTech becomes especially crucial in emergency and low-resource settings as it provides a way to overcome disruption and ensure education continuity. Moreover, it equips teachers and students with technical skills transferable to the 21st-century workplace. 

Topics

• Teaching and learning on mobile phones

• AI in education and the workplace

• Digital literacy and ICT skills

• Data privacy and security in online learning

Research in education and emergency explores evidence-based strategies to support education in crisis settings to sustain access to quality education. Researchers, practitioners, and communities come together to foster and make best use of local knowledge in response to emerging challenges in education. It also examines existing systems and shares insights and recommendations that benefit diverse learners in emergency contexts. Ethical considerations and practices are addressed to elevate community empowerment and resilience.

• Resilience

• Multilingual education

• Community empowerment

• Research ethics in emergency

• Monitoring, evaluation, and advocacy in emergency

• Gender, equality, disability and social inclusion

• Interrogating humanitarianism and development

Education should be accessible to all under any circumstance. However, this may not be the prevailing situation in many parts of the world. Under this theme, educational stakeholders develop and share adaptive, inclusive, and innovative educational pathways that meet the needs of all learners and leverage new opportunities. 

• Inclusive education

• Lifelong learning

• Education pathways

• Innovative approaches to education

• Flexible learning programs