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Bill Cope is a Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign and a leading scholar in the fields of literacy and technology-mediated learning. His recent research has focused on the development of AI-supported digital writing and assessment technologies.
In conjunction with Common Ground, he has led the development of CGScholar and CyberScholar platforms with the support of grants from the US Department of Education, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and the National Science Foundation.
Recent Publications
Cope, Bill, and Mary Kalantzis. 2022. “The Cybernetics of Learning.” Educational Philosophy and Theory 54 (14): 2352-88. https://doi.org/10.1080/00131857.2022.2033213
—. 2023. “A Multimodal Grammar of Artificial Intelligence: Measuring the Gains and Losses in Generative AI.” Multimodality and Society 4 (2): 123-52. https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795231221699
—. 2024. “On Cyber-Social Learning: A Critique of Artificial Intelligence in Education.” In Trust and Inclusion in AI-Mediated Education: Where Human Learning Meets Learning Machines, edited by Theodora Kourkoulou, Anastasia O. Tzirides, Bill Cope and Mary Kalantzis, 3-34. Cham CH: Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64487-0_1
—. 2025a. “Generative Transpositions: The (Anti-)Grammar of Text-Semantic, CyberSocial Intelligence.” Multimodality & Society 5 (4). https://doi.org/10.1177/26349795251387490
—. 2025b. “Platformed Learning: Reshaping Education in the Era of Learning Management Systems.” In Critical EdTech Studies and Digital Platforms in Higher Education: Varieties of Platformisation, edited by Duncan A. Thomas and Vito Laterza, 129-73. London: Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-88173-2_7
Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, and Akash Kumar Saini. 2025. “The Ends of Tests: Possibilities for Transformative Assessment and Learning with Generative AI.” In AI and the Future of Education: Disruptions, Dilemmas and Directions, edited by Shafika Isaacs, 81-88. Paris: UNESCO. https://doi.org/10.54675/KECK1261
Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, and Anastasia O. Tzirides. 2024. “Meaning Without Borders: From Translanguaging to Transposition in the Era of Digitally-Mediated Meaning.” In Multifaceted Multilingualism, edited by Kleanthes K. Grohmann, 329-70. Amsterdam NL: John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/sibil.66.13cop
Cope, Bill, Mary Kalantzis, and Gabriela C. Zapata. 2025. “Language Learning After Generative AI.” In Generative AI Technologies, Multiliteracies, and Language Education, edited by Gabriela C. Zapata, 14-39. London: Routledge.
Kalantzis, Mary, and Bill Cope. 2025a. “Literacy in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.” Reading Research Quarterly 60 (1/e591): 1-34. https://doi.org/10.1002/rrq.591
—. 2025b. “Multiliteracies Since Social Media and Artificial Intelligence.” Harvard Educational Review 95 (1): 135–51. https://doi.org/10.17763/1943-5045-95.1.135