The Call for Proposals begins in October and ends December 15, 2008. Acceptance letters will be sent by January 15, 2009.

Presentations

All concurrent sessions will last 45 minutes. Each presentation room will be equipped with a PC, a video projection device, a screen, and a VCR. Please note that Internet access is not available. Limited technical support will be available if you need assistance. Click here for a schedule of concurrent sessions (coming soon).

Preparing Your Paper (or click here for Fishbowl Guidelines)

Accepted papers will be due by March 2, 2009. Your paper will be published in the Distance Learning Administration Annual , and will be considered for the Best Paper Awards and invitation for publication in The Online Journal of Distance Learning Administration .

1. Use single spacing for body text. Time or New Times Roman font, and 10 point type, flush left.

2. Title should be Times or Times New Roman, 16 point type, bold and centered.

3. Author name(s) and affiliation should be centered, plain text, starting three spaces below the title. The affiliation should be below the author's name. Skip one line between authors, and then two lines after the authors before starting paper.

4. Do not put the word abstract in bold.

5. Keep everything flush left, except title, authors, and affiliations. Headers should be in BOLD.

6. Do not underline anything. Use italics instead.

7. If you have tables and figures, include them withint the paper, NOT on separate pages. Do provide a separate copy of figures and illustrations in a graphics format (GIF or JPEG). Limit to three tables and figures, please.

8. Don't indent or tab the first line of a paragraph. Create a blank space above and below each paragraph.

9. Any reference should be at the end of your paper, using APA style.

10. Set all margins to 1 inch.

11. Do not number your pages.

Length

There are no length requirements or restrictions. However, your paper will ideally be between 400 and 1600 words. We reserve the right to edit lengthy papers to meet space limitations.

Author Affiliation and Address

At the end of the paper, put the names, positions, affiliations, addresses and email addresses of each author. This should go after the references, with one space between the references and the authors, and no heading.

Example:
Lucy Smith is the Director of Distance Education at Florida State College, Cleartown, Florida 33333. Email: lsmith@fsc.edu.

Submitting

Submit via email to melaniec@westga.edu . Send your paper as an email attachment in Microsoft Word if possible. Be sure to include any graphic files that may appear in your paper separately in GIF or JPEG format.

Copyright

If you manuscript has not been previously published, either in whole or in part, you agree, by submission of your manuscript and as a condition of publication, to assign copyright of the material to the Distance Learning Administration 2009 Conference. However, publication in the Distance Learning Administration 2009 Annual does not preclude your offering the materials for subsequent consideration for publication by other journals. If your manuscript has been previously published, either in whole or in part, you are reminded that it is your responsibility to obtain formal approval in writing from the copyright holder for the publication of the materials, and to make appropriate and full acknowledgement of the copyright holder in the manuscript for publication.

Conference Registration

Online conference registration is presently available, or you may register by phone with credit card by calling Alicia Williams at 678-839-0631. Hotel registration at the King and Prince is available by calling 1-800-342-0212 (international participants, call (912)638-3631). A conference hotel rate of $145-210 per night is available until May 1, but we suggest that you make your reservations as soon as possible. You should reference Distance Learning Administration/University of West Georgia in order to get conference rates. Please email Stacey Rowland if you are interested alternate hotels.

International Presenters

International presenters must register and pay all conference fees by February 15, 2009 in order to be included in the DLA2009 Conference Program.