Good morning,
For us, BYOD/E began its evolution with laptops. Faculty, particularly adjuncts, started bringing their own laptops to the campus a long time ago. As the number of adjunct faculty grew, the number of personal devices grew. For a while, departments would not buy tenure faculty laptops, but as the university grew initiatives to offer instruction in off-campus locations, faculty could find themselves teaching in a variety of locations with a variety of technologies, and more departments purchased laptops for tenure-track faculty. And then research began to get more mobile, so more laptops found their way into the environment.The first budget impact of BYOD was in the classroom, and that started around 10 years ago, I think. We had to set up instructional podiums that allowed both the use of the classroom instructor's station fixed computer and we found that we had to also allow for a...
