College of Education
Educational Policy Studies
http://education.illinois.edu/frp/eps/billcope
Faculty Research Profiles: William Cope
Developed by the Research Opportunities Office in BER.
Search All Faculty Research Profiles
Research Professor
Educational Policy Studies
326 Education Building
1310 S. 6th St. MC 708
Champaign, IL 61820USA
Section Links
Research Biography
My current research interests include population and community diversity, theories and practices of pedagogy and new technologies of representation and communication, including the 'semantic web'.
Degrees
- Ph.D., History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1987
- B.A., History, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia, 1979
Key Professional Appointments
- Research Professor, Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, 2006--
- Adjunct Professor, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2006--
- Director, Common Ground Publishing, Victoria, Australia, 2001--
- Research Associate, Globalism Institute, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, 2001-2005
- First Assistant Secretary, Dept. of the Prime Minister & Cabinet, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
- Director, Office of Multicultural Affairs, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
- Director, Bureau of Immigration, Multiculral and Population Research, Dept of Immigration & Multicultural Affairs, Government of Australia, 1995-1996
- Director, Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture, University of Technology Sydney & James Cook University of North Queensland, 1993-1995
Activities & Honors
- Plenary Session Chair, UCLA, Unknown, 2004
- Plenary Session Chair, Havana, Cuba, Unknown, 2004
- Keynote Speaker, Universiti Sains Malaysia, Penang, Malaysia, Unknown, 2003
- Session Chair, Institute of Education, University of London, Unknown, 2003
Selected Publications
- Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2008). New learning: Elements of a science of education. Cambridge University Press, NY.
- Cope, B., & Kalantzis, M. (2008). The social web: Changing knowledge systems in higher education. In D. Epstein, R. Boden, R. Deem, F. Rizvi, & S. Wright (Eds.), Geographies of knowledge, geometries of power: Framing the future of higher education. World Yearbook of Education (pp. 371-384). London: Routledge.
- Cope, Bill. and Mary Kalantzis (eds), Ubiquitous Learning, University of Illinois Press, 2008.
- Kalantzis, M., & Cope, B. (2008). Language education and multiliteracies. In S. May & N. H. Hornberger (Eds.), Encyclopedia of language and education: Vol. 1. (pp. 195-211). New York: Springer.
- Kalantzis, Mary and Bill Cope, ‘From Literacy to Multiliteracies: Learning to Mean in the New Communications Environment’, English Studies (South Africa).

