Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
Balancing democracy and meritocracy
Digital courses can help us identify talented high school students while improving education for all, writes Vice Provost for Digital Education Matthew Rascoff.
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.
Bringing AI literacy to high schools
Stanford education researchers collaborated with teachers to develop classroom-ready AI resources for high school instructors.
Research and Explorations
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.
How online teaching can promote empathy
The approaches and tools that emerged during the pandemic could help lay the groundwork for a new driver of academic success, writes Lisa J. Anderson of Stanford Digital Education in Inside Higher Ed.
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.
Natural language processing conference explores use of AI in the classroom
A May gathering at Stanford brought together researchers, entrepreneurs, and funders to increase collaboration in the growing field.
Our Initiatives
Book talks explore ‘belonging’ in higher ed
In its 2023 season, the Academic Innovation for the Public Good series has covered affirmative action, the role of HBCUs, the science of making connections, and the power of networks.
Principles, people, and practices: the key to creative hustle
Educators Olatunde Sobomehin and sam seidel discussed Creative Hustle for the Academic Innovation for the Public Good book series.
An engine for opportunity
Digital education strategies can expand Stanford's offer of social mobility to more people, writes Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
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.
'BioE 177: Inventing the Future' keeps evolving
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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