Course Design and Production

The Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning (VPOL) provides support to Stanford faculty and staff for course design and production, including instructional design services, content production, and online delivery.
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Teaching Commons for Faculty

Exchange resources and ideas for online and blended teaching with other educators and support teams.  
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Signal Blog

Discussions of the design and teaching of online courses for faculty, instructional designers, and educational technologists.
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Lytics Lab

Stanford is a world center for the new sciences of teaching and learning made possible by online instruction.
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OLI at Stanford

The Open Learning Initiative (OLI) is a grant-funded organization that is designed to simultaneously improve learning and facilitate research.
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The Asilomar Convention for Learning Research in Higher Education

A group of educators, scientists, and legal/ethical scholars has issued an ethical framework to inform appropriate use of data and technology in learning research for higher education.
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Education's Digital Future

Technological innovation is only part of epochal change in education at present. We seek to understand this change and help direct it.
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Vice Provost for Online Learning

Sharing as we innovate:  Stanford Online is a university-wide initiative coordinated by the Office of the Vice Provost for Online Learning (VPOL). As we develop new capabilities to enhance teaching and learning on our physical campus, we’re sharing our work worldwide through publicly available courses, teaching strategies, and research findings on digitally mediated instruction.

News: In 2015, VPOL will become part of the new Office of the Vice Provost for Teaching & Learning (VPTL).        
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Report: "2013 In Review"

Stanford's online learning initiative is growing at a fast pace and the university is looking far beyond the MOOC at how to best educate students in the 21st century. A new report highlights accomplishments in 2013 and eyes the future of research-driven innovation.

Stanford Online offers a variety of professional education opportunities in conjunction with Stanford University schools and departments. 

Additional courses are offered by Stanford Center for Professional Development (School of Engineering), Stanford Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Graduate School of Business and School of Engineering), Continuing Medical Education (School of Medicine).

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