BYOD

Alastair Clark

Bring Your Own Device

BYOD

Alastair Clark

Digital Challenge or

Digital Opportunity

Senior Research Fellow, NIACE

Director, Stirring Learning Ltd

Teacher

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• A bit of context• M-Learning and BYOD (The F word)• The Opportunity• The Challenge • Hot Stats from BYOD survey• Mrs Van Der Tramp• The Opportunity

The Context

Source: International Telecoms Union

M-Learning and BYOD

“The exploitation of ubiquitous handheld

technologies, together with wireless and mobile phone

networks, to facilitate, support, enhance and extend

the reach of teaching and learning.”

Mobile learning

'the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned mobile devices to the workplace and similarly for students to bring their own

devices to their learning institution.'

BYOD

Handheld technologies, to facilitate, support, enhance

and extend the reach of teaching and learning.

Students to bring their own devices to their learning

institution.

BYODMobile Learning

The F word

FELTAGFurther Education Learning and Teaching Action Group

…remove ….. inhibitors and ‘nudge’ the Further Education system towards a digital future

Learners:

Learners must be empowered to fully exploit their own understanding of, and familiarity with digital technology for their own learning.

the under-exploitation of learners’ skills, devices

engage and empower learners’ use of digital - and the use of their own devices

UK department for Business Innovation and Skills response to FELTAG

General FE College 14Adult Community Learning provider 12Other 3Land-based College 3Independent Training Provider 2Third Sector 2Specialist College 1Sixth Form College 1Specialist Designated Institution 1IAG/National Careers Service provider 0OLASS provider 0

BYOD Survey of Adult Learning providers

The Opportunity

Riding the wave of BYOD: developing a framework for creative pedagogiesThomas Cochrane, Laurent Antonczak, Helen Keegan, Vickel NarayanResearch in Learning Technology Vol. 22, 2014

Riding the wave of BYOD: developing a framework for creative pedagogiesCochrane, Antonczak, Keegan, Narayan

Question 10

In your opinion, how important are each of these reasons for providers to have a BYOD policy?

Numbers responding ‘Very Important’ n= 39

Digital Opportunity

  Totals

Learning content which cannot be accessed by multiple devices 3

Unresolved security issues 5

Learners’ unwillingness 3

Staff reluctance 15

  Totals

Learning content which cannot be accessed by multiple devices 6

Unresolved security issues 3

Learners’ unwillingness 8

Staff reluctance 8

Other, please specify: 14

  Totals

Data security 11

Learner safeguarding 11

Cost of maintaining networks 15

Perceived removal of 'expert role' from staff 9

Learner exclusion if not implemented inclusively 15

Other, please specify: 8

Training priorities

1. Safeguarding2. Classroom management3. Pedagogy

Please switch on your mobile computing

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Mrs Van der Tramp

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Q 1 In which of the following ways, if any, do your learners use their own mobile devices?

N=39