Keynote Speech -- Directions for Web-Based Learning -- Session 1: Personalization in E-Learning -- Courseware Recommendation in E-Learning System -- A Model for Personalized Course Material Generation Based on Student Learning Abilities and Interests -- Taking Blog as a Platform of Learning Reflective Journal -- Intelligent Knowledge Recommendation System Based on Web Log and Cache Data -- Learning Patterns: A Mechanism for the Personalization of Adaptive E-Learning -- Using a User-Interactive QA System to Capture Student’s Interest and Authority About Course Content -- Session 2: Designs, Model and Framework of E-Learning Systems -- Designing Learning Styles Application of E-Learning System Using Learning Objects -- A Semantics Based Information Distribution Framework for Large Web-Based Course Forum System -- An Efficient Illumination Framework for Web-Based Lighting Engineering Education -- The Database Model and the System Architecture of a National Learning Objects Repository for Cyprus -- Collaboratively Shared Information Retrieval Model for e-Learning -- Session 3: Implementation and Evaluations of E-Learning Systems -- : A Reusable Assessment Engine -- Using VRML and JAVA to Build Virtual Game-Based Learning Environment for Addition and Subtraction Operation -- An Easy-to-Use eLearning Web Authoring System for Educators -- An Implementation of a Case-Based Learning System -- A Web-Based Chinese Handwriting Education System with Automatic Feedback and Analysis -- Session 4: Learning Resource Deployment Organization and Management -- Endowing LOs with a Social Dimension -- Reusability on Learning Object Repository -- INFERS: An Infrastructure for Experience Record in Smart Spaces -- Decreasing the Stratification Influence to Students’ Learning Communities by Asynchronous Learning -- e-Learning Martial Arts -- Session 5: Tools in E-Learning -- Web-Based Learning with Non-linear Multimedia Stories -- IDSVL: Intrusion Detection System Virtual Lab Based on Component in the Internet -- Process Control Model in Web-Based e-Learning -- Automatic Audio Indexing and Audio Playback Speed Control as Tools for Language Learning -- Session 6: Surveys and Invited Papers -- A Survey on Using IT in Administration and Management in Hong Kong Primary Schools -- Facial Expression Hallucination Through Eigen-Associative Learning -- Live Multimedia System Using Peer-to-Peer Architecture for Distance Education -- A Service-Based Framework for Personalized Learning Objects Retrieval and Recommendation -- Internet-Enabled Tangible User Interfaces for Distance Learning -- The Realization and Evaluation of a Web-Based E-Pedagogy Approach for English Second Language (ESL) Learning in Elementary Schools.

This book contributes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Web-Based Learning, ICWL 2006, held in Penang, Malaysia in July 2006. The 31 revised full papers presented together with 1 keynote talk were carefully reviewed and selected from 99 submissions during two rounds of reviewing and improvement. The papers are organized in topical sections on personalization in e-learning, designs, model and framework of e-learning systems, implementations and evaluations of e-learning systems, learning resource deployment, organization and management, tools in e-learning, as well as surveys and invited papers.