e-Learning Platforms and Tools -- Learning Algorithms with an Electronic Chalkboard over the Web -- The Agile Teaching/Learning Methodology and Its e-Learning Platform -- Activity Theory as Tool for Analyzing Asynchronous Learning Networks (ALN) -- An Agent- and Service-Oriented e-Learning Platform -- Automatically Generating an e-Textbook on the Web -- Prioritized Admission Control in Multimedia Network-Based e-Learning -- CUBES: Providing Flexible Learning Environment for Virtual Universities -- Dinosys: An Annotation Tool for Web-Based Learning -- Web-Based Multimedia Authoring and Presentation Framework for Children’s Art Cultivation -- A Progressive Content Distribution Framework in Supporting Web-Based Learning -- Technologies to Support Collaborative Learning over the Multimedia Home Platform -- Proposal for KML Designer with Web-Based Environment -- AI-Based Teaching Package for Open Channel Flow on Internet -- Efficient Methods for Skimming the Web-Based Synchronization Multimedia Lectures -- Web-Based Collaborative Learning Focused on the Study of Interaction and Human Communication -- PKUSpace: A Collaborative Platform for Scientific Researching -- Learning by Seamless Migration – A Kind of Mobile Working Paradigm -- XML-Based Agent Communication in a Distributed Learning Environment -- Hook and Screen Division Based Screen Compression for the Real-Time Multimedia Transformation of e-Learning System -- Design for a Learner-Oriented Tracking -- Web-Based Adaptive Collaborative Learning Environment Designing -- A CATV and Internet Combined Framework for Distance Learning -- MPEG-4 Based Interactive 3D Visualization for Web-Based Learning -- An Adaptive Distance Learning System Based on Media Streaming -- Learning Resource Deployment, Organization and Management -- CDAL: A Scalable Scheme for Digital Resource Reorganization -- An Approach to the Use and Automatic Generation of Web-Based Learning Materials -- e-Learning Services Provision and Management -- A Modular Approach to e-Learning Content Creation and Maintenance -- Using a Knowledge-Based Management to Design a Web-Based Creative Problem Solving System -- Context-Based Classification for Link Data -- Build Presentation Layer for Semantic Contents -- e-Learning Content Management Based on Learning Object -- Improving Web-Based Learning: Automatic Annotation of Multimedia Semantics and Cross-Media Indexing -- Practice and Experience Sharing -- Multimedia Distance Learning Application on Embedded End Device -- Web-Based Collaborative Learning System Design for Navigation Education and Training -- Aphasics’ Communities Learning on the Web -- Crossing Boundaries with Web-Based Tools for Learning Object Evaluation -- Web-Based Handwriting Education with Animated Virtual Teacher -- From e-Learning to Virtual Learning Community: Bridging the Gap -- A Web-Based CAD System for Learning and Laboratory Purpose -- A Web-Based Teacher Assisting Agent System -- An Application-Oriented e-Learning System with Self-monitoring and Adaptive Exercises -- Methodologies of the Personalized Courseware Construction Tools for e-Learning -- Agent-Based Web Learning System Applying Dynamic Fuzzy Petri Net -- Design and Implementation of Virtual Computer Network Lab Based on NS2 In the Internet -- Semantics-Based Answers Selection in Question Answering System -- e-Learning Standards -- Learning Content Recommendation Service Based-on Simple Sequencing Specification -- Learning Object Models and an e-Learning Service Infrastructure for Virtual e-Learning Communities -- Implementation Issues on the Quality Evaluation of Web-Based Courses and Digital Learning Resources -- Reusable Learning Object and Its Strategies for e-Learning -- An Implementation of Learning Objects Management System -- Specification for Service Quality Management System of e-Learning -- Pedagogical Issues -- Personalized Education: An Exploratory Study of Learning Pedagogies in Relation to Personalization Technologies -- Guidelines towards Effectively Sharable LOs -- Articulation of Learners Requirements for Personalised Instructional Design in e-Learning Services -- Comparison of Pronunciation Scores in Spoken Language Learning System -- Community Knowledge Building Environment with Concept of KBC -- Student Participation Index: Student Assessment in Online Courses.

With the rapid development of Web-based learning and new concepts like virtual cla- rooms, virtual laboratories and virtual universities, many issues need to be addressed. On the technical side, there is a need for effective technology for deployment of W- based education.On the learning side, the cyber mode of learning is very different from classroom-based learning. How can instructional developmentcope with this new style of learning? On the management side, the establishment of the cyber university - poses very different requirements for the set-up. Does industry-university partnership provide a solution to addressing the technological and management issues? Why do we need to standardize e-learning and what can we do already? As with many other new developments, more research is needed to establish the concepts and best practice for Web-based learning. ICWL 2004, the 3rd International Conference on Web-Based Learning, was held at the Tsinghua University (Beijing, China) from August 8th to 11th, 2004, as a continued attempt to address many of the above-mentioned issues. Following the great successes of ICWL 2002 (Hong Kong) and ICWL 2003 (Australia), ICWL 2004 aimed at p- senting new progress in the technical, pedagogical, as well as management issues of Web-based learning. The conference featured a comprehensive program, including a tutorial session, a keynote talk, a main track for regular paper presentations, and an - dustrial track. We received 120 papers and accepted only 58 of them in the main track for both oral and poster presentations.