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ILDF 2.0 Phase 4 · Evaluation: Broader Impact

Diffusion Planning: Fidelity Before Diffusion.

You have a design that worked somewhere, and pressure to scale it. This tool runs the readiness gate first — is your local-impact evidence genuinely sufficient? — and only then drafts a staged plan with evidence gates between stages. “Not ready” is an expected, respectable output. A design that worked in one context is a hypothesis in the next one.

Readiness Gate First
Dissemination · Adoption · Scale
Fidelity Before Diffusion
The Core Tension This Tool Manages
AI affordance
A model can map adoption contexts, enumerate barriers and enablers, and draft a staged scaling strategy in minutes — analysis that once took a diffusion study's opening months.
Named risk
Premature Scaling — AI makes diffusion planning so cheap that a design spreads before its local impact evidence exists, exporting an untested hypothesis with confidence it never earned.
Guardrail
The readiness gate runs first, every time. Thin or engagement-only evidence produces a 'not ready' or 'conditional' verdict the tool will not soften, and every scaling stage carries an evidence gate that must be met before the next stage begins.
Human judgment domain
Whether the evidence is genuinely enough, the relationships and trust that adoption actually rides on, and the go/no-go call itself. The tool gates and drafts; you decide.
What this tool does not replace: A real adoption pilot in the new context, or the stakeholder work that makes one possible.
Theoretical grounding:
  • Bannan, B. (2009). Phase 4 program-level dissemination, in Introduction to Educational Design Research, pp. 53–73. SLO.
  • Cook, Bannan & Santos (2013) — design seeking and scaling; adoption analysis. (Verified against the ILDF 2.0 white paper full draft, which cites it for how systemic pain points in learning and work-based practice become tractable subjects for design research.)
  • Bannan-Ritland, B. (2003) — Phase 4 is premised on Phase 3 being genuinely complete.
  • ILDF 2.0 Phase 4 guardrail: fidelity before diffusion.
What I can and can't do:I run the readiness gate against the evidence you describe, and draft a staged plan from the context you give me — I don't verify that your evidence exists, and I don't know your adoption site beyond what you tell me. Every verdict is grounded only in what you wrote.
Optional — this tool works fully standalone. Pick or create a project only if you want this Diffusion Plan saved to the shared Design Journey, or to offer prior local-impact / broader-impact cycles as pasteable context below.
Describe the design, the evidence, and where it would go

Bring your own context — this tool never invents any of it

Four fields, free text. The more specific your local-impact evidence, the more defensible the readiness verdict — a thin or engagement-only account will honestly produce a more cautious verdict, not a padded-out one.

What it is, who it was designed for, and where it has already run.

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Paste or summarize what you actually have — a Learning Analytics Interpreter brief, Formative Evaluation results, or a plain account of what you observed. Thin or engagement-only evidence is a valid, honest answer.

0 / 3000 · minimum 40

More teams, other sites, an external audience — describe the new context as concretely as you can.

0 / 2000 · minimum 40

Named so the plan can be checked against a real definition of success, not an assumed one.

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