Application of SMIL on Distance Education

Synchronized multimedia integration language(SMIL) is an important application of the new generation web language--XML, and can synchronize variant media, save network bandwidth and support super-link. The development and integration system of network-multimedia courseware is a tool of creating and editing network teaching courseware that is based on synchronized multimedia integration language(SMIL). It takes the advantage of SMIL's good on creating network multimedia, and introduces modeling conception, which provides teachers and students a function-strong and using-simple network distance education environment. It has a lot of advantages of saving bandwidth and synchronizing easily as well.