Gabriela C. Zapata is Associate Professor in Education at the University of Nottingham, United Kingdom. Her research foci are Learning by Design and second- and heritage-language pedagogy, computer-supported collaborative learning, multimodal social semiotics, multimodal literacy, and teacher education.

Mary Kalantzis was Dean of the College of Education at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA, 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.

Bill Cope is a Professor in the Department of Education Policy, Organization & Leadership, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA. His research interests include theories and practices of pedagogy, cultural and linguistic diversity, and new technologies of representation and communication.