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Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5145Commenced Publication in 1973 Founding and Former Series Editors: Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen Editorial Board David Hutchison

Lecture Notes in Computer Science 5145

Commenced Publication in 1973

Founding and Former Series Editors:

Gerhard Goos, Juris Hartmanis, and Jan van Leeuwen

Editorial Board

David Hutchison

Lancaster University, UK

Takeo Kanade

Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Josef Kittler

University of Surrey, Guildford, UK

Jon M Kleinberg

Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

Alfred Kobsa

University of California, Irvine, CA, USA

Friedemann Mattern

ETH Zurich, Switzerland

John C Mitchell

Stanford University, CA, USA

Moni Naor

Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Oscar Nierstrasz

University of Bern, Switzerland

C Pandu Rangan

Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Bernhard Steffen

University of Dortmund, Germany

Madhu Sudan

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA

Demetri Terzopoulos

University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Doug Tygar

University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

Gerhard Weikum

Max-Planck Institute of Computer Science, Saarbruecken, Germany

Frederick Li Jianmin Zhao

Timothy K Shih Rynson Lau

Qing Li Dennis McLeod (Eds.)

Advances in

Web Based Learning – ICWL 2008

7th International Conference

Jinhua, China, August 20-22, 2008

Proceedings

1 3

Volume Editors

Frederick Li

Rynson Lau

University of Durham, Department of Computer Science, United Kingdom

E-mail:{frederick.li, rynson.lau}@durham.ac.uk

Jianmin Zhao

Zhejiang Normal University, College of Mathematics, Physics

and Information Engineering, P.R.China

E-mail: zjm@zjnu.cn

Timothy K Shih

Tamkang University, Dep of Computer Science and Information Eng., P.R.China E-mail: tshih@mail.tku.edu.tw

Qing Li

City University of Hong Kong, Dep of Computer Science, Hong Kong, P.R.China E-mail: itqli@cityu.edu.hk

Dennis McLeod

University of Southern California, Dep of Computer Science, Los Angeles, CA, USA E-mail: mcleod@ollux.usc.edu

Library of Congress Control Number: 2008931594

CR Subject Classification (1998): H.4, H.3, I.2.6, H.5, K.3, D.2, I.2

LNCS Sublibrary: SL 3 – Information Systems and Application,

incl Internet/Web and HCI

ISBN-10 3-540-85032-5 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

ISBN-13 978-3-540-85032-8 Springer Berlin Heidelberg New York

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Preface

This year, we received about 170 submissions to ICWL 2008 There were a total of 52

full papers, representing an acceptance rate of about 30%, plus one invited paper

accepted for inclusion in this LNCS proceedings The authors of these accepted papers

came from many different countries We would like to thank all the reviewers for

spending their precious time reviewing the papers and for providing valuable

com-ments that aided significantly in the paper selection process Authors of the best

papers presented in this conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their

papers for possible publication in a special issue of IEEE Internet Computing

This was the second time that the ICWL conference was organized in China It was

particularly special this year to hold ICWL 2008 in China, as the Beijing 2008 Olympic

Games were co-located in the same country during the conference period We would like

to especially thank our Organization Co-chair, Lanfang Miao, for spending an enormous

amount of effort in coordinating the local arrangements In fact, we would like to thank

the entire conference Organizing Committee for their hard work in putting together the

conference In particular, we would like to express our appreciation to our Registration

Chairs, Jiying (Jean) Wang and Lanfang Miao, and Treasurer Howard Leung for their

tremendous efforts in communicating with the authors regarding registration matters and

maintaining the registration lists up-to-date Our Workshop Co-chairs, Elvis Leung and

Philips Wang, organized a Workshop on Blended Learning (WBL 2008), which was

co-located with ICWL 2008 At this workshop, participants could share their ideas on and

experiences in supplementing e-learning with classroom learning

We would also like to thank Won Kim for delivering an invited speech and sharing

his insightful views on Web-based learning research issues Finally, we would like to

thank all the authors of the submitted papers, whether accepted or not, for their

contri-bution to the high quality of this conference We will continue to count on your

sup-port of the Web-based learning community in the future

Jianmin Zhao Timothy Shih

Qing Li Dennis McLeod

Organization

Organizing Committee

General Chair Jifeng He (East China Normal University, China)

General Co-chairs Jianmin Zhao (Zhejiang Normal University, China)

Qing Li (City University of Hong Kong) Rynson Lau (University of Durham, UK) Program Co-chairs Timothy Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

Frederick Li (University of Durham, UK) Dennis McLeod (University of Southern California, USA) Organization Co-chairs Zhangxin Wu (Zhejiang Normal University, China)

Lanfang Miao (Zhejiang Normal University, China) Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh, UK) Publicity Co-chairs Marc Spaniol (RWTH Aachen University, Germany)

Shu-Ching Chen (Florida International University, USA) Taku Komura (University of Edinburgh, UK)

Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, China) Registration Co-chairs Jiying Wang (City University of Hong Kong)

Lanfang Miao (Zhejiang Normal University, China) Workshop Co-chairs Elvis Leung (City University of Hong Kong)

Philips Wang (City University of Hong Kong) Treasurer Jianyang Wang (Zhejiang Normal University, China)

Howard Leung (City University of Hong Kong)

Steering Committee

Chair Qing Li (Hong Kong Web Society, Hong Kong)

Members Shi-Kuo Chang (University of Pittsburgh, USA)

Joseph Fong (Hong Kong Web Society, Hong Kong) Horace Ip (City University of Hong Kong)

Rynson W.H Lau (University of Durham, UK) Xiaoming Li (Peking University, China) Maria Orlowska (The University of Queensland, Australia) Yuanchun Shi (Tsinghua University, China)

Timothy Shih (Tamkang University, Taiwan)

International Program Committee

Stephane Bressan (National University of Singapore, Singapore)

Liz Burd (Univeristy of Durham, UK)

Zhiqiang Cai (University of Memphis, USA)