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Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education

Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity

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Scaling social capital

Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff calls for education systems to work on rebuilding community and social capital instead of focusing on developing human capital for individual benefit. He offers a vision for how online education might help.

High school teacher Mike Taubman standing in front of a white board in his classroom in Newark, New Jersey

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.

Ready to serve

A pre-med student from the Navajo Nation, Tasheena Thompson, ’26, is in ROTC preparing to be a lieutenant. She attributes her confidence in navigating Stanford in part to her experience in high school taking a Stanford writing course and other college courses. 

Our Initiatives

Four male students from Reseda High School in a Stanford computer science course smile at the camera, standing in front of a wall and door decorated with the California flag, a Totoro, and a growth mindset poster

Congrats to high school students excelling in courses from Stanford and beyond

The National Education Equity Lab celebrated its National Honor Society inductees, including 51 students who earned top grades in a Stanford computer science course.

Antioch High School students in their classroom gazing at the viewer in December 2023; these students were taking the Stanford course Introduction to Computers

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.

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Stanford Digital Education brings moral philosophy course to 10 high schools

For the fourth consecutive year, Lecturer Greg Watkins and colleagues are teaching “Searching Together for the Common Good.” Classes are in California, Kansas, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York, and Texas.

Cyclists on the Stanford Spokes team riding past the Main Quad as they leave campus for their cross-country journey

Introducing Spokes 2025

The 2025 Stanford Spokes team includes undergraduate and graduate students with interests ranging from biology and mechanical engineering to math and political science. They will bike across the country in the summer, offering hands-on learning festivals in communities along the way.

Jacinda Ardern smiling as she is sworn in as prime minister of New Zealand, flanked by officials

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.

Community college students working on laptops in a classroom at San Jose City College

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.

Research and Explorations

Matthew Rascoff speaking at the lectern in the Trusteeship Council Chamber at the United Nations

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.

A cluster of workshop participants discussing ideas for enhancing pathways programs

High school educators shape Stanford effort to extend pathways from under-resourced communities to college

A small group of teachers and administrators convened on campus to give input and describe possibilities for the dual enrollment program run by Stanford Digital Education.

Andre Denham, Priscilla Fiden, Suzanne Dove, and Patrice Torcivia Prusko

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.

The Future of Learning: AI Agents and Human-Centered Education

A March 17 panel examined how universities are responding to the evolution of generative artificial intelligence. The event was hosted by Stanford Digital Education.

Notes from the Vice Provost

Martin Luther King giving a speech at Stanford in April 1697

Martin Luther King, Jr., gave a speech at Stanford that we must not forget

The 40th observation of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is an opportunity to reflect on his legacy and our educational ideals, writes Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.

Woodcut-style image of an avenue of palm trees in snow, at night

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.

Living textbooks help envision an era of educational abundance

Advances in productivity could transform how we exchange knowledge and learn, says Vice Provost for Digital Education Matthew Rascoff.


 

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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