Office of the Vice Provost for Digital Education
Advancing Innovation for Equity and Opportunity
Course brings Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to under-resourced high schools
Professor Lerone A. Martin is discovering that high school students are eager to learn about the two legendary freedom fighters.
Our team develops tool to enhance equity in project management
Paloma Gutierrez, Stanford Digital Education student fellow, explains how a checklist can help to promote diversity in the office’s initiatives.
Events
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Notes from the Vice Provost
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.
Private universities have public obligations
Providing an education to students from modest backgrounds is part of who we are as an institution and dates back to our founding documents, says Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
Balancing democracy and meritocracy
A policy dispute between a scientist and a senator informs Stanford Digital Education’s efforts to bring challenging courses to Title I high schools, writes Vice Provost Matthew Rascoff.
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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