In my first semester as a college writing instructor, I could tell from the general lack of interest from my students that I was failing to reach them. The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel inspired me to try a more comedic tack in my teaching. Amazingly, the atmosphere in all of my classes went from stale silence during the first couple of weeks to joyous engagement by the end of the sixteen-week semester.

If universities are to attract more students from ever-shrinking applicant pools, innovations in teaching and learning must be scaled up. We studied a number of large universities across the country that introduced pedagogies and technologies that benefit thousands of students. How did they successfully scale up these pedagogical innovations, which often started small, to reach students across their institutions?