USE OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN THE INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION: THE PERCEPTIONS OF BUSINESS EDUCATORS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN RIVERS STATE
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The study investigated the perceptions of business educators in three tertiary institutions in Rivers State on the use of new technologies in the instructional delivery of business education. Three research questions and three null hypotheses tested at 0.05 level of significance guided the study. Survey design was adopted. The population of the study was made up of 99 Business Educators from universities ,and colleges of education. Random sampling technique was used to select 70 Business Educators but 51 respondents were eventually used for the study. A 4 point response item questionnaire was used for data collection. Experts in business education validated the instruments and the Cronbach Alpha correlation coefficient was used to establish the reliability indices of the instrument. The results gave the reliability index of 0.80, 0.86, and 0.92 respectively for each of the clusters. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while t-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. It was found that business educators
were strongly aware of the use of new technologies in the instructional delivery (NTID) of Business Education. They were specifically aware of blogging, laptop computers, and internet modem, among others. Most of the new technology accessories such as photocopiers, desktop computers and printers, among others were available while digital versatile disk recorder (DVDR) and digital versatile disk player (DVDP) were not available. Business educators utilized some of the new technologies such as laptop computers, photocopiers, and desktop computers, among other accessories for instructional delivery. However, they do not utilize DVDR, DVDP and VSAT. The business educators in the
universities and those in colleges of educations in Rivers state differed significantly over awareness, availability and utilization of NTID, thus, the three null hypotheses were rejected. It was recommended among others that the government should make available relevant new technology accessories to the tertiary institutions for effective delivery of business education. Business educators should find time to be involved in professional development programs to improve their competence in the use of ICT in instructional delivery.
Keywords: New Technologies, Instructional Delivery, Business Education, Perceptions.
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