Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
Stanford Digital Education visiting fellow builds accessible paths for next-generation leaders
Social entrepreneur Abby Falik is pioneering new approaches to ensure that motivated high school graduates worldwide can access the learning that matters most.
What a moral philosophy course offers high school students
Mike Taubman, ’04, teaches a class based on a long-running Stanford freshman seminar (Structured Liberal Education, or SLE) to his students in Newark, New Jersey.
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.
Virtual reality experience raises awareness of racism's effects
The 1,000 Cut Journey program helps users perceive the emotional and physical toll of racism.
Stanford pandemic education report: Lessons can be drawn from COVID-19 emergency remote teaching
Innovations made by staff and faculty during the pandemic have the potential to support students’ well-being and academic progress.
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
Stanford helps community colleges bring Google's Data Analytics Certificate to students
The collaboration between the Bay Area Community College Consortium, Google, and Stanford Digital Education reflects the belief that training in data science can boost job prospects.
The Floating University: Experience, Empire, and the Politics of Knowledge
Historian Tamson Pietsch discussed a bold precursor to Semester at Sea for the Academic Innovation for the Public Good book series.
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.
Low-income high schoolers take Stanford courses for dual credit
A partnership with the National Education Equity Lab (NEEL) enables Stanford to offer a range of high-touch online courses to Title I high schools.
Six Stanford students cycle and teach across America
Stanford Digital Education partnered with Stanford Spokes to facilitate its annual summer cross-country ride.
Changing Course
For high school and college students, online instruction can open a door to archival research
Stanford historian Tom Mullaney envisions a collaborative course that would connect students with special collections in their communities.
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.
Palliative care clerkship mixes best of both worlds: online, in-person
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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