Foreword by the Editors. Five Years of the Romanian Internet Learning Workshop -Work of an International Community of Experts. Mihai Jalobeanu, Susan English, Nicolae Nistor. Part I: Overview and Theoretical Background. The Internet in Education: The Past, the Present and, Hopefully, the Future. Mihai Jalobeanu. Learning on the Internet: Some Empirical Research. Hermann Astleitner, Learning Competence for the Knowledge Society. Heinz Mandl and Ulrike Krause. Web Based Learning and Transactional Distance Theory. Steve Wheeler. Changing to Online Learning: A Close-Up View with a Wide-Angle Lens. Susan English. Human Behaviour in the Online Sub-Culture. Steve Wheeler and Nicolae Nistor. On-Line Learning and Security. Steven Furnell and Titis Karweni. Part II: Projects and Tools. Scaffolding-by-Design as a Model for Online Learner Support. Koos Winnips. Implementation of Online Learning at the University of Regensburg. Thomas Lerche and Hans Gruber. A Didactical Concept for Virtual Seminars at the University of Munich. Nicolae Nistor. Leaving the Ivory Tower: Using the Virtual Classroom to Improve Teacher Training. Beate Baltes. Foreign Languages: Using the Internet for Teaching and Learning: A Model of In-Class Delivery. Uwe Matthias Richter. Using Digital Technologies in Cultural Education. Kari Smith. Beam Physics Online at the University of Michigan. Bela Erdelyi, Jens Hoefkens, Lars Diening, Kyoko Makino and Martin Berz. Student Knowledge Evaluation in Internet Environments. Florin Bota, Laura Farinelli and Fulvio Corno. Web Page Generation. Stefan Trausan-Matu. Part III: Conclusions and Visions. The Internet: The Ultimate Resource, or a Source of Frustration? William Lindsay. Present and Future in Teaching and Learning Science by Information and Communication Technology. Mircea Rusu. Author Profiles. Index.