Mary Kalantzis is Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. 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 is co-author or editor of a number of books, including: The Powers of Literacy: Genre Approaches to Teaching Literacy, Falmer Press, London, 1993, Multiliteracies: Literacy Learning and the Design of Social Futures, Routledge, London, 2000; New Learning: Elements of a Science of Education, Cambridge University Press, 2008 (2nd edition, 2012); Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2009; Literacies, Cambridge University Press 2012 (2nd edition, 2016) and A Pedagogy of Multiliteracies, Palgrave, 2016.