Motivations For BYOD: An Investigation Of The Contents Of A 21st Century School Bag

Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) is an emerging socio-technical phenomenon in both businesses, and increasingly, in schools-where it is being advocated for ICT enabled learning. The later has not, to date, received as much research attention as the former. Despite accelerating adoption, the factors that affect students’ use of BYOD are still not well articulated. This research determines those factors that affect secondary school students’ use of BYOD. We used a modified version of Taylor and Todd’s (1995) decomposed Theory of Planned Behaviour (TPB) to evaluate antecedents to behavioural intention to BYOD. We received 386 responses from 9 New Zealand secondary schools. The results show that students’ behavioural intention to use their own device is substantially influenced by their attitude and moderately influenced by their subjective norms and perceived behavioural control.