"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. Chapters of this book include: (1) Planning for Multimedia Learning (Patrick Fahy); (2) Toward Effective Use of Multimedia Technologies in Education (Geraldine Torrisi-Steele); (3) Interactive Multimedia for Learning and Performance (Ashok Banerji and Glenda Scales); (4) Teaching, Learning and Multimedia (Loreen Butcher-Powell); (5) Reaching Students of Many Languages and Cultures (Rika Yoshii, Alfred Bork, Alastair Milne, Fusa Katada, and Felicia Zhang); (6) Designing for Learning in Narrative Multimedia Environments (Lisa Gjedde); (7) Principles of Educational Software Design (Vassilios Dagdilelis); (8) Multiple Representations in Multimedia Materials (Michael Sankey); (9) Empirical Representations in Multimedia Materials (Paul Kawachi); (10) Multimedia, Cognitive Load and Pedagogy (Peter Doolittle, Andrea McNeill, Krista Terry, and Stephanie Scheer); (11) Cognitive Skill Compatibilities in Web-Based Educational Systems (Elspeth McKay); (12) Usable and Interoperable E-Learning Resources Repositories (S. Retalis); (13) Interactive Multimedia and AIDS Prevention (Jose Illera); (14) Interactive Learning in Engineering Education (Katia Tannous); (15) An Embedded Collaborative Systems Model for Implementing ICT-based Multimedia Cartography Teaching and Learning (Shivanand Balram and Suzana Dragicevic); (16) Cave Automated Virtual Environment (Leo Hin, R. Subramaniam, and Sharlene Anthony); (17) Multimedia Learning Designs (Mike Keppell, Jane Gunn, Kelsey Hegarty, Vivienne O'Conner, Ngaire Kerse, Karen Kan, and Louise Messer); and (18) Using an Interactive Feedback Tool to Enhance Pronunciation in Language Learning (Felicia Zhang).