By Rhea Kelly, Campus Technology
“Bring Your Own Device,” or BYOD, has been an ed tech buzzword for so long that it’s hard to imagine a learning environment without student-owned laptops, tablets, smartphones and the like. In fact, in its 2015 Top 10 IT Issues, Educause referred to BYOD as part of “the new normal,” pointing out that technologies such as mobile, online education, cloud and BYOD are forcing IT to retool and redefine its support strategies and security policies. “What began in the last decade as a faculty or staff member connecting a personal laptop to the campus network has exploded into an ever-growing ecosystem of personally owned smartphones, tablets, cloud storage, processing, and other individually owned technologies that are everywhere we are,” wrote Mark Askren, CIO at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, in the ECAR research report “The Consumerization of Technology and the Bring-Your-Own-Everything (BYOE) Era of Higher Education.”
http://campustechnology.com/articles/2015/06/25/tackling-byoe-in-higher-ed.aspx
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