Digital Education

AI lessons for high schools
With support from high school teachers in New York and California, Stanford Digital Education created a program that combines lesson plans, eventually to be available online, with the Google ‘AI Essentials’ course.
Our Initiatives

New Stanford courses in pipeline for high schools in low-income communities
Stanford Digital Education plans to double the number of courses it offers in Title I high schools by 2027, with new options in artificial intelligence, engineering, and journalism, among others.

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.
Research and Explorations

Educational AI with ‘humanity in the loop’
In a keynote at the UNESCO International Day of Education, Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff offered a framework for understanding the potential of artificial intelligence to advance education globally.

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.
Notes from the Vice Provost

Seeking light and knowledge in the new year
Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff reflects on how a children’s book that he is reading with his son raises questions for higher education to consider in 2025.
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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