Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
Stanford students ride and educate from San Francisco to DC
Six Stanford students are cycling across the country over 75 days, while stopping to teach hands-on STEM workshops to pre-K students through 12th graders in 10 states.
Playbook boosts community college efforts to help students get data analyst jobs
With a new publication, Stanford, Google, and the Bay Area Community College Consortium offer a road map for integrating Google Career Certificates into community college education.
How to make AI work for higher education
A convening of educators at the White House, including Vice Provost Rascoff, leads to questions about how to bring more evidence into ed tech.
Research and Explorations
Bringing AI literacy to high schools
Stanford education researchers collaborated with teachers to develop classroom-ready AI resources for high school instructors.
National summit explores how digital education can promote deeper learning
The conference, held at Stanford, was organized to help universities imagine how digital innovation can expand their reach, improve learning, and better serve the public good.
BioE JEDI Corner interview with Erik Brown
Erik Brown, associate creative director at Stanford Digital Education, sat down with Shreya Garg and Marly LeSene of Stanford Bioengineering to discuss lessons learned through his experiences with making education accessible.
Conference on natural language processing in education results in white paper
Participants at the May conference at Stanford worked together to lay out principles and strategic directions for research-practice-industry partnerships.
Our Initiatives
“It proves I can do anything I put my mind to”
Niagara Falls High School students excelled in CS 105, a computer science course offered in fall 2023 by Stanford Digital Education.
Our team develops tool to enhance equity in project management
Paloma Gutierrez, Stanford Digital Education student fellow, explains how a checklist can help to promote diversity in the office’s initiatives.
Collaborative fellowship program offers administrative internships to community college students
Student fellows, all from the College of San Mateo, were mentored by experienced staff members in seven different Stanford offices and learned a variety of professional skills.
Haas Center for Public Service and Stanford Digital Education partner with Matriculate
The organization supports low-income high school students by connecting them with undergraduate advising fellows who provide virtual mentorship.
Notes from the Vice Provost
The Oxford oaks and the Stanford sequoia
Higher education has a unique role to preserve the past, plan for the future, and solve problems today, says Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
Private universities have public obligations
Providing an education to students from modest backgrounds is part of who we are as an institution and dates back to our founding documents, says Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
Balancing democracy and meritocracy
A policy dispute between a scientist and a senator informs Stanford Digital Education’s efforts to bring challenging courses to Title I high schools, writes Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
Changing Course
Course brings Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to under-resourced high schools
Professor Lerone A. Martin is discovering that high school students are eager to learn about the two legendary freedom fighters.
Stanford course for working professionals centers ethics in discussions of technology
What a group of tech professionals learned while exploring how to design technology that serves the public good.
Promoting bio-literacy through digital education
Professors Drew Endy and Jenn Brophy take a step toward educating the world about bioengineering with a course offered to high school students nationwide.
About Stanford Digital Education
Our Vision
By uniting Stanford’s human and technological capabilities in novel ways we seek a more just, equitable
and accessible system of education.
Our Mission
We incubate and support digital education initiatives across the university that serve the public good.
We help develop Stanford’s online and hybrid education strategies and strengthen its capacity to carry them out.
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