Interactive Multimedia in Education and Training

Interactive Multimedia in Education and Training emerges out of the need to share information and knowledge on the research and practices of using multimedia in various educational settings. The book discusses issues related to planning, designing and development of interactive multimedia in a persuasive tone and style, offering rich research data. Roles and application of multimedia in different education and training contexts are highlighted, as are case studies of multimedia development and use, including areas such as language learning, cartography, engineering education, health sciences, and others. Authors of various chapters report on their experiences of designing multimedia materials that are pedagogically appropriate and suitable to the cognitive abilities of the target groups.

Dr. Sanjaya Mishra is Senior Lecturer of Distance Education at Staff Training and Research Institute of Distance Education, Indira Gandhi National Open University, New Delhi. He holds a PhD in Library and Information Science, and has been a teacher of communication technology to distance educators. With professional training in Distance Education, Television Production and Multimedia, Dr. Mishra has conducted a number of workshops for university and college teachers on e-Learning and multimedia courseware development. He is a member of Editorial Board of many research journals including International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Distance Education and Malaysian Journal of Educational Technology.

Dr. Ramesh C. Sharma is Regional Director at Regional Center – Karnal of Indira Gandhi National Open University. He holds a PhD in Educational Technology and has more than 17 years of teaching and research experiences in technology enabled education. Being an educator of teachers, Dr. Sharma has conducted a number of in-service and pre-service training programs for school teachers about the use of interactive multimedia. He is a member of Editorial Board of many research journals including International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Distance Education, Journal of Information Technology Education and Turkish Journal of Distance Education.