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Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges
Miller, Servel Welsh, Katharine E.
Miller, Servel
Welsh, Katharine E.
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2017-12-01
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The recent growth of mobile device ownership provides significant opportunities for universities to utilise these devices to enhance the student experience. Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) allows students to use their own devices in an educational environment. This can provide opportunities such as students feeling more familiar with the technology, enabling personalisation of the devices, and could potentially reduce the cost of keeping up to date with new technology for higher education institutions. However a number of challenges also exist such as how to ensure students without mobile devices feel included and the issue of devices acting as a distraction. This chapter focuses on student’s perceptions of BYOD including how motivated they feel to learn and how they use their own devices in the classroom. The findings suggest that students are willing to use their own devices, they feel more motivated to learn and they feel more connected with teaching overall.
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Miller, S., & Welsh, K. (2017). Bring Your Own Device in Higher Education: Opportunities and Challenges. In D. Rene, & C. Aubin (Eds.), Mobile Learning: Student Perspectives, Applications and Challenges (pp.133-164). New York, NY: Nova Science Publishers
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9781536128017