Digital Education
Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
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.
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
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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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