this book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the first international conference on web-based learning, icwl 2002, held in hong kong, china in august 2002.the 34 revised full papers presented together with an invited keynote paper were carefully reviewed and selected from 75 submissions. the papers are organized in topical sections on system modeling and architectures, distance learning systems engineering, collaborative systems, experiences in distance learning, databases and data mining, and multimedia.