KEENAN HELLYER
Melbourne, AU | me@keenanhellyer.com | keenanhellyer.com
Education technologist specialising in generative AI applications for tertiary teaching.
WORK EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION TECHNOLOGIST, DEPARTMENT OF ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
The University of Melbourne | 2024 - 2026
- Developed protocols for the use of large language models in assessment, curriculum mapping and qualitative thematic analysis, successfully piloted with formative assessment in classes of more than 300 students in 2025-26.
- Developed and deployed custom VFX pipelines for unattended keying, composition and rendering of recorded teaching content.
- Developed and deployed an on-premises transcription and diarisation service, reducing reliance on external services such as Otter.ai.
- Developed and deployed local data transformation pipelines for redacting student PII across thousands of submissions, including handwritten assessments, enabling ethics-compliant and time-efficient SoTL research.
- Authored and delivered eight staff-facing workshops on applications of generative AI across academic and professional domains.
ACADEMIC SPECIALIST, SCHOOL OF BIOMEDICAL SCIENCES
The University of Melbourne | 2019 - 2024
- Spearheaded the rapid transition of 27 School subjects to Zoom during the initial stages of the 2020 pandemic, outpacing university-wide efforts.
- Led the Unity3D implementation of the VR Human Heart project, deployed to 2,000 students (1,250 first-year and 750 second-year). Evaluation found it beneficial to learning (93%), authentic (94%) and engaging (92%).
- Coordinated and ran engagement events for prospective students, with more than 1,500 secondary school students attending activities across five years.
- Maintained more than $1.5M of physical and cloud infrastructure supporting digital learning delivery across the School.
EDUCATION
- 2016 - 2018 - Bachelor of Science (Physiology) - The University of Melbourne
AWARDS
- 2025 - The University of Melbourne Staff Excellence Awards - Norman Curry Award for Innovation and Excellence in Educational Programs
- 2025 - FMDHS Staff Excellence Awards - Award for Program Innovation
PUBLICATIONS
- Cham, K., Chan, T., Abou-Issa, R., Kruger, N., Wong, D., Zu, M., Bowne, J., Hellyer, K., Huhtanen, A. and Kim, G., 2022. Digital Technologies Easing the Learning Curve in the Transition to Practicum. Journal of Information Technology Education: Innovations in Practice, 22(1), pp.91-107.
WORKS PRESENTED
- 2019 - The Virtual Human Heart at Biosciences Educators of Australia Network - Sevigny, Bowne, Hellyer, Williams
- 2019 - The Virtual Human Heart at Australian Physiological Society - Sevigny, Bowne, Hellyer
- 2019 - Development and Deployment of Virtual Reality (VR) Learning Tools at Scale at UoM Teaching and Learning Conference - Sevigny, Bowne, Hellyer, Fabris, Fong, Rathner
- 2021 - Our Virtual World: recreating 'brick and mortar' spaces online for learning, teaching, orientation and training at UoM Professional Staff Conference - Hardiman, Baum, Bowne, Hellyer
- 2021 - Our Virtual World: recreating 'brick and mortar' spaces online for learning, teaching, orientation and training at FMDHS Learning and Teaching Conference - Hardiman, Baum, Bowne, Hellyer
- 2023 - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to provide assessment and individualised feedback at scale at FMDHS Learning and Teaching Conference - Hellyer, Bowne, Fong, Rathner, Sevigny
- 2024 - Socratic tutors and pushing the RAG envelope at FMDHS Learning and Teaching Conference - Hellyer, Sevigny
FUNDING AWARDED
- 2023 - Using Large Language Models (LLMs) to Provide Assessment and Individualised Feedback at Scale - $22,500 - C. Sevigny, J. Bowne, K. Hellyer, A. Fong, J. Rathner
- 2021 - Facilitating Dual Delivery Teaching - $21,750 - C. Sevigny, K. Hellyer, J. Bowne, J. Tay
