INTEGRATING NEW TECHNOLOGIES FOR IMPROVING THE BUSINESS EDUCATION CURRICULUM IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN IMO STATE

Abstract

The study was on integrating new technologies for improving the business education curriculum which was conducted in tertiary institutions and in Limited Liability Companies in Imo State. The new office procedures and technologies are speedily replacing the old ones. This caused the various universities offering business education to individual curriculum in attempt to capture the new
technologies; hence the need to improve and unify the curriculum. The population of the study was made up of 106 business educators and secretaries. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. A structured questionnaire validated by experts was used for data collection. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The findings of the study showed that the respondents agreed that the courses generated in this study were very relevant and could be incorporated to business education programme in order to embrace the new skills and knowledge involved in business activities and in the workplace. Based on the findings, it was recommended that the business education curriculum should be reviewed in line with the new technologies and the business educators and secretaries should improve their skills and knowledge through re-training program, so that they can impact relevant skills and also be relevant in the working environment.