Elvis Wai Chung Leung & Fu Lee Wang 
Advances in Blended Learning 
Second Workshop on Blended Learning, WBL 2008, Jinhua, China, August 20-22, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

The Second Workshop of Blended Learning (WBL 2008), as part of the 7th Inter- tional Conference on Web-Based Learning (ICWL 2008), was held in Zhejiang N- mal University, Jinhua, Zhejiang, China during August 20–22, 2008. WBL 2008 provided an international forum for the dissemination of original results in the design, implementation, and evaluation of blended learning systems and related areas. In particular, the aim of WBL 2008 was to bring together researchers from academia as well as commercial developers from industry to explore ideas, exchange and share experiences, and further build the blended learning research network. The inspirations and new ideas were expected to emerge from intensive discussions during formal sessions and social activities. The main focus of WBL 2008 was on the most critical areas of blended learning, namely, ‘e-Learning Platforms and Tools, ’ ‘Design, Model and Framework of e- Learning Systems, ’ ‘Practice and Experience Sharing, ’ and ‘Pedagogical Issues.’ In total, the workshop selected 17 papers from authors of different countries for presen- tion and publication, a task which was not easy due to the high quality of the subm- ted papers. Using stringent selection criteria, submissions were rigorously reviewed based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation by an international Program Committee from Germany, Spain, UK, Italy, Ireland, Romania, Hong Kong, Japan, Taiwan, and Macao.

Tabela de Conteúdo

Invited Talk.- Facilitating Education in Prisons.- E-Learning Platforms and Tools.- Advanced Methods of Web Learning.- An Online Special Terminology Interpreting System for Bilingual Instruction.- Design and Implementation of Principles of Computer Organization Virtual Lab Based on Component.- Design of a Real-Time On-Line Web-Based Collaborative Learning Environment for Embedded Applications.- A Novel Pen-Based Flowchart Recognition System for Programming Teaching.- Design, Model and Framework of E-Learning Systems.- The Case of Interactive Web-Based Course Development.- Designing an Intelligent Coach for a Collaborative Concept-Mapping Learning Environment.- A Theoretical Framework of Ecosystem of Learner Development for Designing a Practical Ubiquitous Learning Environment.- Computer Assisted Learning with Card Game in System Design Concept.- Application of Page Rank Technique in Collaborative Learning.- Practice and Experience Sharing.- Summarization on the Data Mining Application Research in Chinese Education.- Medical Imagistic Database Query for Educational Purpose.- Integrating IRT to Estimate Learning Ability with S-P Chart in Web Based Learning Environment.- A New Approach for Education Information System’s Compliance Test with the CELTS Standard Based Upon XML Processing Technology.- Pedagogical Issues.- Multimedia Instructional Design Corresponded to Cognitive Psychology.- Study of Heterogeneous Distributed Resource Warehouse Semantic Retrieving Based on Multi-agent.- Technical Route for Remote Demonstration Teaching.