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Issue #8: Supporting the Trends toward IT Consumerization and Bring-Your-Own Device
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 laptop to use the classroom system. In fact, right now, I'd like to study this on campus, because as I view classrooms, I think I'm seeing more personal laptops connecting than I see use of the fixed computer. If that's true, that could change how we configure classroom systems and the cost model will change.
Recently we decided to change our wireless network strategy from a "network of convenience" to a "primary connection service." This means moving to greater density of access points and implementing security to support a business quality network.
So I'd say for my campus, BYOE has been an evolution over the past several years, rather than a revolution. The devices just got smaller and more ubiquitous.
- We'll provide connectivity and access points. The keyword there is "more" so provisioning network connectivity is expected to cost more at every stage of providing the connection.
- We won't provide what are essentially personal, non-primary computing devices.
For planning and governance, we have an announced strategy of "Think Mobile First". That means as we provide services, whether academic or administrative, we need to think about those services in a mobile environment. We are device and device-ownership agnostic. This is a very different way of thinking. We still are accustomed to a university purchased desktop workstation, where there is this fixed location of a desktop, and connectivity, security, software, and defined data flows centralized in a spot. But it seems the world has evolved into a multi-orbit universe, with devices, data, software, and people all moving in different orbits.
Best wishes,
Theresa
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