slides from the Hive NYC July 2014 Meet Up Slide - Spread & Scale

1. Spread and Scale
Strategies
of Hive Organizations
Hive NYC Community Meet-Up
July 2014

2. For the
full version…
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3. What’s spreading?
• “Digital Tools/Learning Experiences (e.g.: Parsons'
Noisemaker microcontroller)
• Online communities/platforms (e.g.: Iridescent's Curiosity
Machine)
• Program models/curricula (e.g.: Common Sense Media's
Digital Literacy Curriculum)
• Event/Workshop Models (e.g.: Emoti-con, Movable Game
Jam)
• Pedagogical approaches and best practices (e.g.: topic
selection routines for issue-based media projects)
• Design Principles (e.g.: the Connected Learning principles;
making learning interest driven, production centered, and
peer-powered)
• Pedagogical Values (e.g.: equity, progress, empowerment,

4. In what way?
• adoption
• replication
• adaptation
• reinvention
(From Coburn’s Spread/Scale Framework)

5. Strategies
• “Physical” Footprint Expansion
• “Virtual” Footprint Expansion
• Open Educational Resources (OER)
Distribution
• Professional Development
• Consulting
• Thought Leadership
• Working Open

6. Questions to ask yourself
What form(s) of innovation I am trying to
spread?
What conception(s) of scale am I aiming to
achieve and how do they impact my
strategy?

7. Questions to ask yourself
What changes need to be made to the
innovation I'm trying to spread, the context
I'm trying to spread to or through, or to my
own organization in order to make spread
viable?

8. Questions to ask yourself
What have others done that I can learn from?
How can I make sure I learn along the way
so that course corrections can be made?

9. Questions to ask yourself
What role(s) can I and do I want to play in the
larger Hive ecosystem in terms of spread and
scale issues?
What are roles I can see other organizations
in the ecosystem playing in relation to my
own strategy for scale?

10. Pair and Share (5/5/5)
What form(s) of innovation I am trying to spread?
What conception(s) of scale am I aiming to achieve
and how do they impact my strategy?
What changes need to be made to the innovation
I'm trying to spread, the context I'm trying to spread
to or through, or to my own organization in order to
make spread viable?

11. Thoughts/Reflections?

12. What’s my organization’s
role in the ecosystem?
• Trainer of Trainers
• Thought Leader
• Open Innovator (sharing
discoveries/challenges)
• Distribution Point
• Program Adopter/Adapter
• Strategy/Consultant

13. What’s my organization’s
role in the ecosystem?
I am an X, and I’m looking for a
Y.