Sebastian Kelle
Educational Technologist and Instructional Designer at University of Illinois
About
Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words.
— Dante, Inferno
Hello, Guten Tag and Meow. I’m Sebastian Kelle. I work as an Instructional Designer at the Siebel School of Computing and Data Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Together with my team, I ensure our part of the University is always up-to-date with the latest and the greatest in instructional technology, teaching methods and more. So when you ask who does the teaching of teachers: look no further.
My Ph.D. is in Educational Technology — you can download my thesis here (PDF). I completed it in the Netherlands before moving to the United States; my country of origin is Germany. Prost. I settled in Urbana in 2020 together with my wife, and we’ve since added two daughters to the family, as well as some four-legged friends.
Specialties
- Campus videographer, small and large scale production
- Intellectual property and licensing
- Academic integrity, FERPA compliance, and more
- Online proctoring (hint: avoid it if you can!)
- Extended reality
- Game-based learning
- Learning management systems
- Agentic and generative AI
- MOOCs and scalable content
- Web accessibility and document accessibility
- Keeping all of the above simple and efficient
Research
Immersive Media and XR
I'm affiliate member of our University's Center for Immersive Computing, and I’m always happy to collaborate on related research. Here’s a talk showing things in action. More recently, I gave a talk about Liminal Spaces in XR
AI for Learning
Agentic AI is becoming a new reality we can no longer ignore. I’m involved in creating educational content on the topic, and I’m researching the impact of this new medium in the higher-ed context.
Music
Away from work, I’m a musician in two locally popular bands: Prairie Sharks and Starcruiser. Check out the websites, listen to some tracks, and come see our live performances when we play in town!
Contact
Always happy to hear from colleagues and collaborators, near and far.