Sixty percent of those surveyed said mobile security had them most concerned, with 20 percent citing scalability as a pressing issue.
In a similar survey released earlier this year by the Association of Communications Technology Professionals in Higher Education, more than 60 percent of respondents said they were worried about their ability to match the demands of the ballooning number of mobile devices coming to campuses, but only 40 percent said they had a plan for mitigating that growth.
Sixty-one percent of respondents said they expected network costs to rise, but less than 40 expected their budgets to rise accordingly.
The Education Dive survey also asked CIOs about what kinds of mobile devices their schools used. The most popular device seemed to be Apple’s iPad, with 72 percent of respondents saying the tablet was in use on their campus.
Apple’s iPhone was close behind at 60 percent. Thirty-eight percent of respondents said they used Adroid phones.
Sixty two percent of the CIOs indicated that they were provided with a tablet or smartphone by their institution.
“It’s worth noting that the iPhone is less popular than the iPad,” the authors said, “which may be a reflection of the iPad’s classroom and administrative uses in the education space.”
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