{"id":4946,"date":"2012-05-06T16:46:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-06T23:46:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/?p=4946"},"modified":"2012-05-06T21:50:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-07T04:50:58","slug":"byod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/2012\/05\/06\/byod\/","title":{"rendered":"BYOD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the corporate sector IT managers are trying to cope with the &#8216;impossible&#8217; situation that workers are insisting on coming to work, and doing their work, with their own mobile and work devices (<strong>Bring Your Own Device &#8211; BYOD<\/strong>), creating (for the managers, they say) a tsunami of technology management, security, etc, problems. \u00a0For the workers, they simply know they are more productive and happy using their own devices. \u00a0The same trend is already dominant in post-secondary and will inevitably prevail in K-12 as devices become more ubiquitous, economical, robust and personalized.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Opportunity Statement<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>There&#8217;s no question that <strong>BYOD<\/strong> will ultimately be cheaper and more efficient for both formal and informal education providers, so this transition creates a set of venture opportunities surrounding the content, infrastructure and management of the provision of learning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Prediction Source(s): \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/mindshift\/2012\/01\/12-education-tech-trends-to-watch-in-2012\/\">KQED &#8211; BYOD<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the corporate sector IT managers are trying to cope with the &#8216;impossible&#8217; situation that workers are insisting on coming to work, and doing their work, with their own mobile and work devices (Bring Your Own Device &#8211; BYOD), creating (for the managers, they say) a tsunami of technology management, security, etc, problems. \u00a0For the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[325967],"tags":[493589,328769],"class_list":["post-4946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-emerging-markets-poll","tag-byod","tag-emerging-markets-poll-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4987,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4946\/revisions\/4987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/etec522may12\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}