Harrison Kelly, Managing Director, APAC

Harrison Kelly

Managing Director, APAC

As Instructure’s Managing Director of APAC, Harrison leads the region's go-to-market strategy, providing sales leadership, highly disruptive services and customer-focused solutions that support the company's growth across Asia Pacific. He is a seasoned senior C-Suite consultant and Enterprise Director with a track record of overachieving multi-million dollar quotas through high-impact negotiation, thought leadership, and a challenger mentality. Before joining Instructure, he held senior roles at top companies like LinkedIn, Gartner, and IBM.

More From Harrison Kelly

May 22, 2023
The Invaluable Role of An LMS in Modern K-12 Classrooms
When building a modern K-12 classroom, a strong set of pillars is necessary to provide a productive and supportive learning foundation for all students. Among these pillars are several essential strategies to develop 21st-century learners:Technology Integration: Technology is an integral part of the modern classroom, with digital devices, such as tablets and laptops, that enhance the learning experience. Teachers use various educational software, multimedia resources, and online tools to Read More...
Apr 24, 2023
Stop doing these things if you're an edtech startup keen to plug into a university's LMS
The edtech sector is expected to be worth $404 billion globally by 2025, according to the tracking and forecasting company HolonIQ. The move to online teaching due to the pandemic has seen edtech companies speed up the digitalisation of the higher education sector by five to 10 years. This is according to a study by the investment bank Credit Swisse. It lists the benefits of virtual education – an outcome of edtech companies - as cost-efficient, flexible, and effective.  So how can Read More...
Aug 30, 2022
Connecting learners with their ‘big ideas’: Education’s move into the era of imagination
A roadblock to engaging students in the classroom is equity of access. But technological innovation can help, according to Dr. Jordan Nguyen, a biomedical engineer and futurist. The multi-award winner gave the closing keynote speech on connecting content to learners' 'big ideas' at InstructureCon APAC 2022.  "Teachers and educators can guide learners into the future to empower them to realise their dreams and big ideas. We've got to back students to keep imagining, to keep dreaming big, Read More...
Dec 22, 2020
The New Normal - Teaching When the Class is at Home
We wanted to call this piece “The universally-approved, all-encompassing guide to teaching during the COVID-19 crisis” but it seems there isn't one. Sorry. Apart from the odd bunker-dwelling survivalist, very few of us can claim to have been completely prepared for this. We missed the PD course on pandemics, and no one brought it up in assembly. We’re faced with a situation none of us has had to deal with before, and there’s no instruction manual. Adaptation is the new black, and it’s painful Read More...
Jun 15, 2020
Transitioning back to school – lessons from lockdown?
As we emerge blinking into the sunlight and begin to gather up the traces of pre-isolation life, perhaps we should ask what we can take away from this experience. Some initial conclusions are here: Lesson 1: School is absolutely necessary Pretty much everyone, from Prime Minister to pupils, considers school, of the pre-COVID-19 variety, to be absolutely vital. In addition to the education piece, school gives children a critical grounding in socialisation, group dynamics, basic citizenship – Read More...
Oct 19, 2019
Using Canvas to Support Your Research
In a presentation at CanvasCon Sydney 2019, Craig Rhodes from ICL Education Group in Auckland, NZ asked the question:  Why use Canvas for research?  The answer: because you are already using it. Typically, universities and other research institutions collect research and manage participants through the setting up of websites, shared documents, forms and paying for expensive survey tools. This often leads to a fragmented experience for academics, researchers, learners and survey Read More...

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