John Mitchell

John Mitchell is the chair of the Computer Science Department and the Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor in the School of Engineering, and, by courtesy, a Professor of Electrical Engineering and of Education. John’s research has focused broadly on computer, web, and network security. John is also a pioneer in online learning. In 2009, he and six undergraduates built Stanford CourseWare, a platform that served as the foundation for Stanford's initial flipped classroom experiments and helped inspire the university’s first massive open online courses (MOOCs) in 2011. In 2012, John was appointed as the university’s first Vice Provost for Teaching and Learning. John will remain engaged with VPTL as a special adviser to the provost for digital strategy.