Digital Education
Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Innovating to advance opportunity (2021-2026)
Established in 2021, Stanford Digital Education helped launch a movement to create new digital pathways to higher education for learners who historically have lacked access to the benefits offered by elite colleges and universities.
Although the special funding for the program sunset on January 15, 2026, the initiative leaves a legacy for educators at Stanford and other schools to follow. To ensure that its lessons remain readily available, we provide this report, with short essays from SDE team members and colleagues about executing dual-credit, hybrid courses and other projects.
We are grateful to the many members of the Stanford community, the team at the National Education Opportunity Network, our peers at other colleges and universities, and the teachers and administrators at the Title I high schools and community colleges with whom we partnered. Most of all, we thank the many students whose passion for learning and whose courage in facing new challenges was an inspiration for us to pursue this work. It leaves us with tremendous hope about the potential for higher education to create a better world.
If you have questions about this report or need information about Stanford Digital Education, please contact Debby Angus-Weberski at debby@stanford.edu or Matthew Rascoff at mzrascoff@stanford.edu.
How 2,612 Title I high school students enrolled in Stanford courses
Stanford Digital Education pioneered a dual-credit course program in which students from high schools in low-income communities (Title I high schools) earned Stanford credits, as well as credits from their high schools. These courses gave students unique learning opportunities to master Stanford’s college-level material that was previously unavailable in their high schools. The experience not only provided students with new subject matter, it boosted their confidence that they could thrive at Stanford and other selective colleges and universities. Courses were offered in collaboration with the nonprofit National Education Opportunity Network, formerly the National Education Equity Lab.
Watch how SDE courses changed lives
‘Bioengineering for all’
Highlights from 2025
AI lessons for high schools
Stanford Digital Education worked with high school teachers to create AI lessons for their classes.
Help for community colleges
Stanford Digital Education and partners designed a novel coding course for community colleges.
Global dialogue
Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff spoke at the UN about advancing AI in education.
Encouraging high schoolers
A summit in L.A. boosted high school students' confidence to aim high when applying to college.
Acing college courses
An honor society chose 51 students who earned top grades in CS 105.
Other Initiatives
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.
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.
Stanford Human Resources provided new digital education benefits for employees
Members of the Stanford community have been able engage in thousands of hours of free online coursework, thanks to a program that SDE helped to launch.
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