Since the first ICWL was held in Hong Kong, in 2002, the event has been held in Australia (2003), China (2004), Hong Kong (2005), Malaysia (2006), the United Kingdom (2007), and China (2008). The Hong Kong Web Society, the RWTH Aachen University, and the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science will jointly organize ICWL 2009. The technical program will feature keynote addresses, workshops, tutorials, in addition to presentations of refereed papers.


Authors are invited to submit original papers on research results or novel applications in web-based learning. Papers for submissions should be formatted in a single column of no more than ten single-spaced pages in PDF format for review. All accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings.


All accepted full papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (tentative). It is further planned that authors of the best papers will be invited to submit their extended versions for special issues of relevant journals.


Areas of interest include but are not limited to: Technology Enhanced Learning; Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages; Mobile Learning; Social Software and Web 2.0 for Technology-Enhanced Learning; Learning-Resource Deployment; Organization and Management; Design, Model, and Framework of eLearning Systems; eLearning Metadata and Standards; Educational Gaming and Multimedia Storytelling for Learning; Practice and Experience Sharing; and Pedagogical Issues.


The deadline for the submission of full papers and workshop proposals is March 1, 2009; the submission deadline for poster papers is May 1, 2009.