BYOD has continued to gain traction globally with many markets reporting an ongoing uptake in adoption. Currently, schools who have failed to achieve their device targets, either due to a lack of government funds or the ending of government funds/projects, have turned to parental funded BYOD schemes as an alternative approach to reaching or maintaining 1:1.
Whilst BYOD deployment can be complex and benefit from OS/device standardisation across the student-base, many schools are either hesitant or restricted from fully instructing parents on what specific device to purchase – as a result there is a mix of those who practice a guided recommendation on which device-types to purchase and those which run an ‘unmanaged’ scheme to allow full freedom of device choice to parents.