21st Century Tools for Teaching-People and Learners

BYOD policy coming to a network near you

 

Many companies will continue to identify the risk of allowing personal devices and computers onto the corporate network as being too great. For example, Cisco research reports that 48% of respondents said their company would never authorise employees to bring their own devices although 57% agreed that some employees use personal devices without consent.

 

However, this is likely to change. The availability of new tools to help IT administrate and manage devices may overcome some of that initial resistance.

 

Perhaps the 'consumerisation' of IT, with the ubiquity of smartphones, tablets and laptops, and cloud-based services will provide an ===> irrepressible demand for BYOD policies to be adopted. <===

 

But whether the drive to consume learning on personal devices comes from within or outside of the corporate firewall, the nature of the demand will continue to diversify and present us with new possibilities and challenges.