This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Web-based learning, ICWL 2003, held in Melbourne, Australia in August 2003.The 50 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 118 submissions.

Web-Based Learning Environment.- Challenges of Web-Based Learning Environments: Are We Student-Centred Enuf?.- Cognitive Scaffolding for a Web-Based Adaptive Learning Environment.- Information Security – An E-learning Problem.- Building an Effective Learning Management System.- Wireless AnyServer – A Mobile ad hoc Web-Based Learning System.- A Web-Based Platform for E-learning Based on Information Management System.- Experiences in Developing and Running WebCMS.- A Dynamic Conceptual Network Mechanism for Personalized Study Plan Generation.- GridFS: A Web-Based Data Grid for the Distributed Sharing of Educational Resource Files.- Virtual University.- A Virtual Laboratory for an Online Web-Based Course-’Rapid E-business Systems Development’.- A New Architecture for Web-Based Virtual Laboratory with CORBA Technology.- The Creation and Maintenance of an Online Subject: Some Practical Factors.- SameView: A Large-Scale Real-Time Interactive E-learning System Based on TORM and AMTP.- Pedagogical Issues.- Cultural Issues Relating to Teaching IT Professional Ethics Online: Lessons Learned.- Perspectives on Creativity in Web Learning.- Experience in Developing A General Education Website.- Interface Metaphors and Web-Based Learning.- Mapping Pedagogy to Technology – A Simple Model.- Multimedia Based E-learning.- ATLAS: A Web-Based Software Architecture for Multimedia E-learning Environments in Virtual Communities.- Streaming Audio and Video in Web-Based Learning: A Comparative Study of Three Systems.- Subdivision Feedback Based 3D Facial Modeling for E-learning.- 3D Model and Motion Retrieval: The Extended Dimensions for Web-Based Learning.- Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a Digital Lectern System.- Interactivity.- User Learning Experience in Web-BasedSystems: A Case Study.- Use of Web-Based Live Demos in Computer Science Courses.- Effective E-learning by Use of HCI and Web-Based Workflow Approach.- Internet-Based Interactive Package for Diagnostic Assessment on Learning of Fluid Mechanics.- A Kind of Smart Space for Remote Real-Time Interactive Learning Based on Pervasive Computing Mode.- Managing the Interactivity of Instructional Format and Cognitive Style Construct in Web-Mediated Learning Environments.- Intelligence in Online Education.- Intelligent Online Academic Management System.- Collaborative Supervision of Machine Learning as a Tool for Web-Based Education: A Teaching and Learning Triangle.- Mediator Based Open Multi-agent Architecture for Web Based Learning.- Intelligent Characters of Web-Based Learning Platform.- Innovative Curriculum in E-learning.- Knowledge Refinement Tools to Support Inductive Learning by Inquiry Examples.- Toward Supporting E-learning and Providing E-teaching Services for E-world.- A Framework for Evaluation of Learning Effectiveness in Online Courses.- Incorporating Motivational Elements in a Web-Based Learning Environment for Distance Students: A Malaysian Experience.- E-learning Solutions.- Assessment Management Using Software.- Using the Web as a Source of Graded Reading Material for Language Acquisition.- Modelling the Adoption of Web-Based Mobile Learning – An Innovation Translation Approach.- Adaptive Educational Hypermedia Based on Multiple Student Characteristics.- Distributed Web-Based Critiquing of Electronically Submitted Assessment.- In-Process Quantitative Evaluation for Network-Based Learning.- A Web-Based System to Teach Computer Operating System Theories and Usage to Elementary School Students.- Developing Learning Objects through Concepts and Contexts.-Building Reusable and Interactive E-learning Content Using Web.- CSCL.- Design and Implementation of VPL: A Virtual Programming Laboratory for Online Distance Learning.- A Framework to Support Schema Matching in E-learning.- Exploring the Foundations of Practicing Online Collaboration.- Synchronous Graphic-Interaction in CSCL.