Wellbeing, Disrupted: Open education to support a flexible understanding of inclusive wellbeing

Wellbeing, Disrupted: Open education to support a flexible understanding of inclusive wellbeing

Keeping wellbeing in homeostasis where people feel well and balanced is complex, especially in the COVID-19 landscape where our places of work and learning have for many, involved somewhat forced reconceptualization. Demarcation between work and home has become increasingly blurred in many sectors, and trying to negotiate the converging worlds of work, study, and home lives becomes a constant challenge. Rather than ‘working from home’, we are instead ‘taking home to work’ and this creates implications for perceptions of personal and professional wellbeing. It is into this rabbit hole that we seek to explore with you maintaining wellbeing while focusing on publishing an open text book and then using this publication to lessen barriers to learning.

This workshop, facilitated by the authors of the open textbook ‘Wellbeing in Educational Contexts’, aims to support you to create a contextualised wellbeing model that has professional and personal applications. During the ninety minutes, explore the construct of wellbeing and attributes associated with health and wellbeing. You will be actively engaged in a range of online activities, including co-constructing content and examining how to apply the themes of wellbeing to the library digital context and to ‘the self’. The open educational principles of inclusive access, participant voice, and shared resources employed in the workshop will also be professionally relevant to librarians, especially those in the academic sector. An introduction to open education and open textbooks, based on the facilitators continued engagement with publishing will also be provided.

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