Bring Your Own Device

1. BYOD Bring Your Own Device

2. Focus of the Presentation • What is BYOD? • How could it benefit my school? • What are the challenges? • What technology solutions are available? • Next Steps • Questions • Sharing and Discussion

3. What is BYOD? • BYOD stands for Bring Your Own Device • It is also referred to as BYOT or Bring Your Own Technology • The purpose is to allow students to bring their personal devices into your school and use them for educational purposes. • A device can include laptops, mobile phones, smart phones, tablets, iPods, iPads, or any other mobile electronic device.

4. How could it benefit my school? • It is a possible solution to outdated computers, such as end of life CFF equipment • Allows for a greater number of students to have access to mobile devices • Cloud based applications provide access from anywhere – extends the learning beyond the school day. Many are free. • Office 365 25Gb’s , Google Apps • Increase student engagement

5. It is not necessarily a way to save money!

6. Why Not? • BYOD requires added investment in infrastructure in order to allow personal devices to connect in a safe way. • There will always be students who do not have the means to buy their own devices. The district needs to have a plan to provide equitable access.

7. What are the challenges? • Students may use devices outside of classroom • Students may use devices inappropriately • Personal devices may bring viruses onto school network • Supporting multiple platforms • Supporting devices with outdated antivirus and OS updates • No way to control 3G or 4G access on devices • Schools have a responsibility to filter content (CIPA). • Applies to any device on school network. • Applies to any school owned device on or off the network. • Schools have a responsibility to protect data (FERPA)

8. What are the solutions? • Update policies and procedures • Update to allow electronic devices on the network • Policy should not allow use of wifi access (3G) and should indicate penalties • Develop student guidelines • Develop a parent permission form that protects teacher and school from lost/stolen equipment • Teachers need to monitor student use especially with regard to wifi access. • Implement a wireless network that supports BYOD inherently: Security & Management (ie. MerakiWireless, Cisco*, Aruba*). * additional components required • Implement a filtering device that can recognize any device that is on the network (ie. Meraki, Lightspeed, Barracuda, SonicWall) • Implement Cloud Services to “wrap” solutions together - Stoneware

9. Wireless Networking • Traditional WLAN Vendors: • Complexity + Hidden Costs • Meraki: Simply Works Access Points Complex Installation Feature Licenses Support and Maintenance Per-site Controller Hardware Dedicated Staff • - Plug and Play Installation • - All Inclusive Features • - Lifetime Warranty on AP’s • - No on-site Controller Hardware • - No Upgrades or Patches for Staff Meraki is the first enterprise Wireless LAN thatinstalls in 15 minutes

10. Complete Wireless Control User fingerprints Client location Real-time control Application QoS

11. Fully Integrated BYOD Solution

12. School District Adoptions • 500+ School Districts have deployed Meraki in last 12 months • Majority have made multiple purchases • 200+ NEW School Districts purchased in Q4 2011 • Local School District Customers • PA: Upper Merion, Exeter, Purchase Line, Red Lion • NY: Ithaca, Clarence Central, Newfield Central, Dryden Central • CT: Bethel Public, Brookfield Public, Kingswood-Oxford, New Canaan Country, Newtown • Notable School District Customers • Alvin School District: 17,000 students, 20 schools, 800 AP’s • Rainbow School District: 14,500 students, 48 schools, 200 AP’s

13. Local Success – Upper Merion S.D. • HS: 1: 1 Program • MS: 9 x Mobile Carts • Elementary: 2 x Mobile Carts per building Mark Erb, Director of Technology: “Speed of deployment 200+ Meraki AP’s deployed in under three days” “Reduce Annual Maintenance Costs from Operating Budget” “Improve efficiency of IT staff by delegating guest access” “Value added features at no additional costs. Improve mobile performance for teachers and students by shaping recreational traffic”

14. Lightspeed Systems  1:1 Initiative • Provide regular, consistent interaction with technology • Encourage learning after school hours • Provide consistent, fair access to technology for all students • Allow students to utilize technology in a location/ time of their choice • Give students greater access to learning resources • Increase teacher‐student communication

15. The Need for Mobile Filtering • To provide districts and students withthe protection theyneed for 1:1initiatives • The Guide Mobile Filter extends your policies and protection • Flexible filtering when computers are off thenetwork.  Whether your mobile users are part of a 1:1 initiativeor staffbringinglaptopsonand off the network • Enforce your Acceptable Use Policies

16. Lightspeed Systems – Big Campus

17. About LightspeedSystems • Lightspeed Systems Inc., founded in 1999, developscomprehensive networksecurityandmanagementsolutionsfor theeducationmarket.  • Our software is used in more than 2,000 school districts inthe UnitedStates, theUnitedKingdom, andAustraliatoprotectmorethan7 million students.  • For the past several years, Lightspeed Systems has beenrecognized on the Inc. 5,000 list as one of the nation’s fastest‐growing privatecompanies

18. Cloud Services - • Founded in 2000 • 10,000 customers • Over 5 million users • Created the first web-based, IT delivery platform

19. Solution: Unified Delivery Problem: There is a New Reality • Applications, services, and resources are dispersed across device, data center, and the public cloud • Public cloud, Private cloud, and Local Devices are managed independently • Growing number of unmanaged devices (pads, slates, etc.) are making it problematic for IT to deliver services and control • Difficult environment for the end user to understand and navigate • Unified Delivery • of all application and services across the public cloud, the private data center, and the local devices (pads, notebooks, smartphones, laptops, workstations, and desktops) • Unified Management • to provide a means for IT to manage all IT resources (public, private, and local) , (windows, web, and hosted web) • Unified Interface • creates one common HTML5 web desktop accessible anywhere from any device Chaos Public Cloud (SaaS) Private Cloud (data center) Device Quote: “Users gain their freedom from device and location while IT regains control”

20. Transformation is Underway • Organizations across all sectors are positioning themselves to benefit from a unified cloud computing • Collapse corporate digital resources into the data center • Lower deployment and desktop support costs • Benefit from web scalability • Leverage existing licensing on the device • Strategy for incorporating tablets, slates, and pads • Support remote users • Moving toward an any device model • BYOD, BYOT • Zero Client Footprint

22. Next steps • Identify educational goals • Review district policies • Needs to be a collaborative effort involving technology, curriculum, administration • Identify teacher leaders • Start with a small pilot project

23. Gail M. Kennedy Director of Technology and Information Services Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 1605 West Main Street Norristown, PA 19403 610-755-9352 gkennedy@mciu.org