Engaging conference titles
With my colleague Orna Farrell I am running a workshop on Wednesday 13th February on writing good conference abstracts. The slides are available on SlideShare. This is in part to help participants prepare their submissions for the ICDE WCOL conference we are hosting in November.
One of the most important things is to have a really good title that will grab people’s attention. Below is a list of some suggestions for how you can achieve this. I’m very much looking forward to the workshop, which will be repeated in two webinars later this month.
- Based around a metaphor of some kind
- Cuban’s concept of the flight of the butterfly or the path of the bullet
- A kaleidoscope of digital technologies
- The entangled web: post-critical perspectives
- Moody MOOCS: An Exploration of Emotion in an LMOOC
- The story of MOOCs through loops: From disruptive to sustaining innovation models of higher education
- Helicopter view of current state of open education around the world
- Mind the gap: A critical guide to digital literacies
- The scary monster of Ed Tech: Future proof or future shock?
- A world of opportunities: digital technologies and literacies
- Snake oil - the hidden perils of digital technologies
- Can you Give me Sanctuary? Exploring the Transition Experiences of Refugees and Asylum Seekers to Online Distance Learning
- Cuban’s concept of the flight of the butterfly or the path of the bullet
- Comparisons:
- The rhetoric or reality of the promise of digital technologies
- Thunderbolt or Lightfoot? Doing Digital in the 21st Century
- Tales of open education from two islands: thrills, tensions and transformations
- The rhetoric or reality of the promise of digital technologies
- Something controversial, which will get people’s attention
- Provoke curiosity
- A review of the state of the art on a topical issue
- Opening up Education: Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices
- Frameworks for Learning Design
- Best practice in Continuing Professional Development
- Traversing the digital landscape of Higher Education
- Opening up Education: Open Educational Resources and Open Educational Practices
- A variant on a well-known song or movie
- We don’t need no education: the changing nature of formal and informal learning
- Jaws: snagging digital technologies from the jaws of a shark
- Are we living in the matrix: what is the reality of our engagement with digital technologies?
- Sliding doors: the ebb and flow of digital technologies
- The brave new world of opening up education
- The good, the bad and the ugly about learning styles
- La la land: is the promise of digital technologies fiction?
- Leave no trace: digital privacy and surveillance
- We don’t need no education: the changing nature of formal and informal learning
- Alignment with the conference themes
- Transforming lives and societies through digital technologies
- What is the future of online education?
- Transformative online pedagogies: a review of the landscape
- Reimaging open pathways and new credentials for lifelong learning
- Transforming lives and societies through digital technologies