| IMPORTANT DATES | 
                        
                            | Abstract submission | 31st Oct. 2017 | 
                        
                            | Abstract acceptance notification | 5th Nov. 2017 | 
                       
                        
                            | Conference Dates | 20-21 Nov.  2017 | 
                        
                   
             
        
            Authors of accepted abstracts shall have a time slot for oral presentation at the conference. For accepted abstracts, the authors shall submit a full paper and the selected full papers shall be published in a special issue of Journal of Distance Education and Research (JDER) www.journal.vu.edu.pk as conference proceedings.