WELCOME TO ICWL

ICWL is an annual International Conference on Web-based Learning, founded by the Hong Kong Web Society. The first ICWL was held in Hong Kong in 2002. Since then, ICWL has been held in Australia (2003, 2023), China (2004, 2008, 2010, 2015, 2020, 2024), Hong Kong (2005, 2011), Malaysia (2006), United Kingdom (2007), Germany (2009, 2019), Romania (2012), Taiwan (2013), Estonia (2014), Italy (2016), South Africa (2017), Thailand (2018), Macao (2021), Spain (2022).

The 24th ICWL will be held on 30 November ~ 3 December 2025 at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong (China). This year's theme is “Advancing Educational Technology in the Age of AI”. It will feature a technical program of refereed papers selected by the international program committee, and keynote addresses offered by eminent international scholars.

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit original papers reporting on research results or novel applications in technology-enhanced learning. Submissions will be handled through Submission Portal. Papers for submission should be formatted according to the Springer LNCS Authors Guidelines: Information for Authors. Formats for the submissions are either Full Paper (12-15 pages) or Short Paper (6-11 pages), including main content and references. Since the review process will be double-blind, the submitted manuscript should not contain the authors' names, affiliations, or any information that may disclose the authors' identity. All papers should be submitted in PDF format.All accepted papers presented at the conference will be published as a volume in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Topics of interest

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Applications of AI in Education
• Assessment in e-learning
• Informal Learning in the Workplace
• Cloud-based Learning
• Computer Support for Intelligent Tutoring
• CSCL
• Deployment, Organization and Management of Learning Objects
• Design, Model and Framework of e-Learning Systems
• Digital libraries and Web corpora for e-learning
• E-Learning Metadata and Standards
• E-Learning Platforms and Tools
• Educational Technologies
• Game-based Learning and Serious Games
• Generative AI in Education
• HTML5 Web-based Learning
• Human Factors and Affective Computing for Learning
• Informal Learning in the Workplace
• Intelligent Learner and Group Modelling
• Intelligent Tools for Visual Learning
• Learning Analytics
• Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC)
• Mobile, Situated, and Blended Learning
• Open educational resources (OER)
• Pedagogical Issues
• Personal Learning Environments (PLE)
• Personalized and Adaptive Learning
• Security and Privacy of Web-based Learning
• Virtual environments and 3D graphics for e-learning
• Web 3.0 and Social Learning Environments
• Web-based Learning for Oriental Languages Learning

Special issues of selected papers

One special issue with selected articles from the conference will be published in IEEE Transactions on Learning Technologies. Another special issue in a relevant international journal is planned (currently under negotiation with the publisher).

Important dates

• Paper submission: 3 Sept. 2025
• Notification to authors: 25 Sept. 2025
• Camera-ready submission: 1 Oct. 2025

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to balta@fdi.ucm.es