Key Topics Discussed

• How coming from an industry background motivated Wendy to incorporate hands-on consulting work into her teaching
• The evolution of her Innovation & Design Thinking course to build a robust partnership with Saint Bakhita Vocational Training Center in Northern Uganda, starting with an eventful trip there in March 2020
• Working with ND Learning’s Office of Digital Learning to use VR to bring the experience of being on the ground in Uganda to more Notre Dame students
• The businesses in Uganda that have grown out of student-partner projects in the course
• How VR builds empathy and understanding among the large number of students who do not actually go to Uganda—but also among those who do
• Lessons Wendy has taken away from years of leading community-based learning and advice she’d give instructors looking to get started with it