If You Build It, Will They Come?

How do you plan to 'scale up' from a successful piloting of an academic program or other initiative? From the League for Innovation in the Community College comes this Leadership Abstract:

To understand the complexities of going to scale in educational settings, Chris Dede, Harvard Graduate School of Education, has created a framework that illustrates five dimensions of taking an innovation to scale—from its success in a single instance to its becoming effective across a broad range of situations or contexts. The five dimensions that make up his framework include depth, sustainability, spread, shift, and evolution. Each dimension has specific characteristics that when optimized, can achieve scale; yet each also carries its own set of risks that can trap innovations from achieving success in scaling up