Micheal Goodman is a group knowledge manager at Via Afrika, an educational publishing house in South Africa. He has been working in education and in charge of teaching, authoring, teacher education and publishing roles for more than 25 years. He has had the opportunity to explore what language learning means in a variety of contexts and in a number of roles. His key interest in these roles has been language, especially for learners who learn and who are taught in a language that is not their home language. He is passionate about the role technology can play in achieving good education. He believes that when applied effectively, technology can transform educational practice and solve the many problems we face across our continent. He has an honors degree in applied linguistics and a master's degree in English education from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.