Matthew Rascoff

Matthew Rascoff is an education innovation leader who has worked across sectors to democratize access to knowledge and opportunity.

He joined Stanford University in 2021 as the inaugural Vice Provost for Digital Education, advising Stanford’s president and provost on digital learning initiatives and establishing Stanford Digital Education (SDE). Under his direction, the SDE team pioneered a model of mission-driven digital learning that accelerates social mobility for students who have been historically underserved by higher education.

Matthew is also a lecturer in management at the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a 2025 Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin.

He has written about open educational resources, emergency remote learning during the pandemic, and digital pathways programs to improve access to higher education. He is currently researching and writing a series of case studies showcasing approaches to AI and education that are emerging from the global entrepreneurial ecosystem. These cases will be published by the Stanford Graduate School of Business and made available to educators in schools of management, public policy, and education.

Previously Matthew was associate vice provost for digital education and innovation at Duke University, where he founded and led Duke Learning Innovation. His team led the Covid-19 emergency remote teaching response at Duke and at Duke Kunshan University. Before Duke he was vice president and founder of the Office of Learning Technology and Innovation for the University of North Carolina system, where he built UNC Online, a statewide cross-registration network for online courses.

Earlier in his career Matthew launched in Berlin the first international office for JSTOR, the digital library of scholarly books, journals, and primary sources, and helped to expand this service to institutions across Europe. He led product teams at Wireless Generation (now Amplify), an edtech company, and built and launched their product development center in Durham, North Carolina. He helped create the strategy group at ITHAKA, an incubator of higher education technology ventures (now Ithaka S+R). Matthew’s experience also includes Google, where he worked on the Book Search project to digitize all the world’s published works.

After completing undergraduate studies at Columbia University, Matthew did graduate work at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul on a Fulbright Scholarship and later earned an MBA from Harvard Business School. He has been a Marshall Memorial Fellow, a Bertelsmann Foundation Fellow, a Robert Bosch Foundation Fellow, and a Stanford Fellow. He serves on the advisory boards of Anthropic and the California Learning Lab and the governing board of Meritus College.