BYOD Guidelines

1. BYOD Guidelines

2. • Developed by EUN, part of the work of MoE in the
Interactive the Classroom Working Group (ICWG)
http://www.eun.org/teaching/interactive-classroom-wg
• Provides school leaders and policy makers with
information on current BYOD trends / models
• Overview of research, white papers etc.
• Examples from European schools and lessons
learned by schools and MoEs in other parts of the
world
• Initial recommendationshttp://fcl.eun.org/news/details?articleId=626873
Scope

3. Definition of Bring Your Own Device(BYOD)
or Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT)
Employees or students bring personally owned mobile
devices (laptops, netbooks, tablets, smartphones,
etc.) to their workplace or educational institution and
use these devices to access corporate, institutional
and other information, applications and services
In education BYOD implementations vary with the extent to which
responsibility for device choice, maintenance and support is shared
between institution and students/families

4. Methodology
•Literature review
drawing on the findings of research funded by governments and
groups of governments, published academic papers, commercial
white papers and more informal online sources
• Interviews
with ICWG members, policy makers in national Ministries of
Education and regional education authorities, school principals and
school teachers

5. European BYOD drivers
• Social drivers: most secondary school students own mobile phones, many have
tablets and/or laptops, most homes have broadband, free wifi is ubiquitous in towns and
increasingly common in rural areas. Students/parents expect technology use.
• Technological drivers: Modern smart devices provide users with many useful tools
whilst being very compact, convenient to carry and, in view of their functionality, relatively
inexpensive
• Economic drivers: Most countries have had recent financial difficulties, in some
cases severe, state funded schools’ budgets have been reduced, frozen or at least the rate of
increase cut
• Educational drivers: Schools are under pressure to deliver improved outcomes for
more students plus differentiated teaching and personalised learning resources and tools to
meet the specific needs of individual learners and groups of learners

6. BYOD in 20 European countries
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Mean IT PL ES TR NO CZ FR PT DA LT DE MT HU SK SV SL EN FI ET RO
%respondents
Country / language
Bring Your Own Device permitted / supported
Students / teachers bring their own devices School provides services for personally owned devices
BYOD in 20 European countriesBYOD in 20 European countries

7. Key messages: essential requirements
• Excellent broadband and Wi-Fi able to maintain good service for
large numbers of concurrent users
• Support IT staff and/or contract with an IT support service
• Similar investment in upgrading and maintaining infrastructure is
required as for 1:1 computing
• Teacher training, CPD and pedagogical as well as technical
support for teachers
• Engaged and informed school leaders to drive culture change and
realise strategy aims

8. Key messages: common objections
• Concerns about equality and inclusion most common
• Emerging researcher/educator/policy maker consensus that measures
needed to ensure students of all socio-economic backgrounds access similar
technology
• Equality a particular concern in countries where education must be provided
free, BYOD requiring parents to pay for devices seen as undermining
• Teachers and IT support concerns about loss of control, classroom
management and extra work
However, some European educators and policy makers now
see BYOD in publically funded schools as inevitable

9. Key messages: different BYOD models
• Definitions of BYOD vary and a number of different approaches to
implementing BYOD used in schools
• Often only a single or small number of mobile devices specifically
authorised for use in school and/or purchased via the school are
allowed
• School defined/supplied device/s approach makes technical and
pedagogical training and support easier to manage and culture
change easier to achieve
• Where students are more free to choose their own device/s they
may also be responsible for their own maintenance and support
and have more limited access to school systems

10. Which model?: control v risk/complexityWhich model: control v risk/complexity?

11. Key messages: implementing BYOD
Approaches to implementation vary, including:
• Very carefully planned supported top down approach
• Informal BYOD by individual innovative teachers in a few classes,
leading to pockets of good practice
• Rather casual approaches where students bring mobile devices to
school but changes in pedagogy are not made to take full
advantage of this technology to enhance teaching and learning

12. Challenges: human and resources
• Lack of strategic direction from some governments
• Local laws: e.g. free education, mobile phone bans
• Need for more teacher training, CPD and support
• Convincing teachers, classroom management, managing culture
change
• Convincing parents and addressing their concerns
• IT staff resistance, fear of losing jobs or control
• Shortage of good practice examples to learn from
• Shortage of apps and resources aligned to local curricula in non-
English native tongues

13. Challenges: technical
• Upgrading infrastructure
• Ensuing adequate network capacity, anticipating and coping with
demand
• Provision of technical support
• Protecting school and student data and systems
• Safeguarding students and staff
• Local laws e.g. Swiss requirement to track which devices are
connected to which content and to store this information for six
months

14. Initial European BYOD case studies
• Austria: national initiatives help kick start BYOD in schools
• Estonia: BYOD maximising benefits from infrastructure investment
• Finland: assessment and desire to reflect societal norms drive BYOD
• Ireland: engaged and informed school leaders drive transformation
• Norway: planned BYOD approach maintaining equality of provision
• Portugal: policy makers’ support needed for teacher innovation to grow
• Switzerland: long-term approach needed to achieve change
• UK: as national ICT initiatives end, BYOD seems obvious next step

15. Quick pointers for schools/teachers
• Top 15 tips for teachers getting started with BYOD
• 15 recommendations for school leaders implementing
whole school BYOD
• BYOD Snakes and Ladders: a prompter for BYOD
strategy discussions
• Technical recommendations

16. Next Steps
•The online version of the BYOD Guide will be
developed further during 2016
http://fcl.eun.org/byod