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Bill Cope is a professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He and Mary Kalantzis are directors of Common Ground Research Networks, a not-for-profit organization developing and applying new publishing technologies. His research interests include theories and practices of pedagogy, cultural and linguistic diversity, and new technologies of representation and communication. His and Kalantzis’ recent research has focused on the development of digital writing and assessment technologies, with the support of a number of major grants from the US Department of Education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. The result has been Scholar, a multi-modal writing and assessment environment.

Mary Kalantzis was dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, United States from 2006 to 2016. Before this, she was dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, and president of the Australian Council of Deans of Education. With Bill Cope, she has co-authored or co-edited: New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (2nd edition, 2012); Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2009; Towards a Semantic Web: Connecting Knowledge in Academic Research, Elsevier, 2009; Literacies, Cambridge University Press 2012 (2nd edition, 2016); A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, Palgrave, 2016; and e-Learning Ecologies, Routledge, 2016.

Anastasia-Olga (Olnancy) Tzirides holds a Ph.D. in the Learning Design and Leadership Program from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). Her research interests include advanced digital technologies, artificial intelligence, user experience research, learning design, online education, as well as language and culture learning. Her dissertation research project focused on exploring the potential of advanced digital technologies and artificial intelligence for collaborative language learning utilizing translanguaging and multimodal communication approaches. In the past, she has worked as a teaching assistant and learning designer for online graduate courses in the Learning Design and Leadership Program and the International Studies Program at the College of Education, UIUC. She was also an instructor at the Modern Greek Studies program at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and designed the elementary and intermediate level courses in an online format.Anastasia-Olga also holds a joint Master’s degree in Multilingual and Multicultural Education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece and Université du Maine, France, and a Bachelor’s degree in Elementary Education from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

Link:  https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84693416495

Meeting ID: 846 9341 6495