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Helping teams anywhere in the world learn the Stanford Design Way

IntoActions and the dGlobal at Stanford program are joining forces to help groups anywhere in the world learn the Stanford Design Way and apply it to their local context.

dGlobal is a 6-week online course, designed to reinforce key concepts based on the enduring practices from the award-winning ME310 design course and leveraging research from the Stanford Center for Design Research (CDR) and the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program. dGlobal is administered by the Stanford Continuing Studies Program.

Building Innovative Teams

How do the best teams work? What practices support a highly innovative team?

This cutting-edge hybrid program is designed around how people truly learn – through a blend of practice, reflection, and reinforcement.

Step 1. Practice

In a flipped model of learning, you organize any event or workshop to provide participants with an initial exposure to group collaboration and design teamwork.

Step 2. Reflect

Interested participants can then submit a mini e-portfolio in which they reflect on their teaming experience through words and photos.

Step 3. Reinforce

Participants then enroll and participate in a Stanford 6-week online course, designed to reinforce key concepts based on the enduring practices from the award-winning ME310 design course, taught at Stanford since 1967.

Course Topics

Benefits & Cost

Participants who complete all three parts earn an official Stanford University transcript and 1 unit of Stanford Continuing Studies credit for DSN300W. They also join the Continuing Studies Program alumni community.

Tuition for the 6-week course is USD $400 per person, payable to Stanford.
Expected course load is approx. 3 hours weekly.

The online course can be combined with a hands-on workshop at the Silicon Valley Innovation Studio in San Francisco or at the participants’ location.

“Your Stanford University program, dGlobal at Stanford: Bringing the Stanford Design Way to You, has helped me and my colleagues think more strategically about entrepreneurship, innovative teams, and project-based learning. It has already led to some new ideas that we will implement with our next cohort at the Programa de Pre-Incubación UTEC.”

Antonella Montes de Oca, Program Director, Technological Entrepreneurship Program
Universidad Tecnológica del Uruguay (UTEC)
Montevideo, Uruguay

Featured Image: dSchool at Stanford University. Image Credit: © IntoActions. Photo by Reinhold Steinbeck

Over the past several years, IntoActions has designed and developed online learning environments for programs that serve very different audiences — from banking professionals in Zambia strengthening their creative skills and building an innovative culture to K–8 bilingual educators improving their classroom practice across California and New Mexico.

Banking on Change: Building an Innovation Culture | Santa Clara University

IntoActions led the design, development, and ongoing management of the online learning experience for Banking on Change: Building an Innovative Culture, an online course offered by the Leavey Executive Center at Santa Clara University. The course content was developed by Professor Nydia MacGregor at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

The three-module program introduces working professionals to the foundations of innovative culture: what innovation actually is, how organizational culture enables or kills it, and what concrete actions every employee can take to contribute.

IntoActions’ design focused on turning the content into a clear and engaging online experience. Each module was developed with a consistent structure, accessible page layouts, practical examples, reflection prompts, and activities that helped participants connect the course material to their own work environment.

BBILY: Bilingual/Biliterate Instruction for Bilingual Youth | University of California at Davis

IntoActions also designed and developed the online learning environment for BBILY — Bilingual/Biliterate Instruction for Bilingual Youth — a professional development initiative funded by a $2.6 million grant from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of English Language Acquisition.

The project supports K–8 bilingual educators across California and New Mexico through online professional development in Spanish. Now in its fifth and final year, the program has reached more than 1,000 teachers.

Prof. Claudia Rodriguez-Mojica, Principal Investigator (PI) of the project and Professor at the School of Education at the University of California at Davis, and her Co-PIs Dr. Allison Briceño (San José State University) and Dr. Kathleen Jablon Stoehr (Santa Clara University) created the content for the 60-hour online professional development series. The program focuses on approaches such as translanguaging, which encourages students to draw on their full linguistic knowledge as they learn course content.

Using the Canvas Learning Management System and DesignPLUS to Support Better Learning

For both projects, IntoActions used Canvas as the learning management system and DesignPLUS to create a more consistent, accessible, and visually engaging course experience.

Canvas provided the core learning environment. DesignPLUS helped us build stronger pages inside that environment — with reusable layouts, clearer module structures, better navigation, and accessible design patterns that could be used across the course.