Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
The Oxford oaks and the Stanford sequoia
Higher education has a unique role to preserve the past, plan for the future, and solve problems today, says Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
Ruth Simmons on Up Home: One Girl's Journey
Ruth Simmons, former president of Smith College, Prairie View A&M University, and Brown University, discussed her memoir with Stanford historian James Campbell for our book series.
Stanford visit sparks high schoolers’ interests
High school students from the June Jordan School for Equity visited the university as part of Stanford Digital Education’s Introduction to Bioengineering, a dual-credit program.
Events
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Book Series
The New Global Universities: Reinventing Education in the 21st Century
A conversation with authors Bryan Penprase and Noah Pickus-
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.
An unusual Stanford course unlocks ethics in my tech life
Erik Brown, associate creative director for Stanford Digital Education, writes about his experience exploring how to design technology that serves the public good along with other tech professionals.
Which problems, and whose problems, will extended reality solve?
A Rotterdam conference attended by our associate creative director, Erik Brown, brought diverse stakeholders together to explore the potential of extended reality technologies.
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.
Collaborative fellowship program offers administrative internships to community college students
Student fellows, all from the College of San Mateo, were mentored by experienced staff members in seven different Stanford offices and learned a variety of professional skills.
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.
Kudos for high school students who aced courses from Stanford, other universities
The induction of a select group of high schoolers into a nonprofit’s honor society offers these scholars proof of their potential to excel in pursuit of higher education.
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.
Changing Course
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.
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.
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.
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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