Making Maker Spaces A High Impact Experience for Higher Education: A Case Study on Build-It in Vietnam

This case study looks at how the USAID-supported endeavor called Building University-Industry Learning and Development through Innovation and Technology (BUILD-IT) utilizes Maker Spaces to improve higher education in Vietnam in the field of engineering. BUILD-IT supports the first Development Objective in the USAID Country Development Cooperation Strategy (CDCS) “Increased Economic Competitiveness”. Within this objective is the need for “improving the business-enabling environment, modernizing higher education institutions, and expanding private sector infrastructure investment”6 to serve development at a national level better.