EXTENT OF INTEGRATION CHALLENGES OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN TEACHING BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
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The study focused on challenges of integrating new technologies for teaching in business education courses in tertiary institutions in North-East, Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study and two hypotheses were tested. A descriptive survey design was adopted. The population consisted of 107 business educators. No sample as taken, as the population size was manageable. A 24-items structured questionnaire validated by three experts was used for the study. The reliability of the instrument was ensured using test-re-test technique and data collected were analyzed using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Co-efficient formula which yielded an overall reliability co-efficient value of 0.89. Data related to the research questions were analyzed using mean and standard deviation in respect to research questions, while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that financial and pedagogical issue constraints affected integration of new technologies in teaching business education courses in tertiary institutions to a high extent. The study revealed that business educators from federal and state owned tertiary institutions do not differ significantly on the extent financial and pedagogical issue constraints affected integration of new technologies in teaching business education courses in North-East, Nigeria. Thus, some suitable measures for improving integration of new technologies in teaching business education courses in tertiary institutions in North-East, Nigeria were highlighted as well. It was concluded that new technologies should be integrated and various ways of improving on the integration of new technologies in teaching business education courses include in-services training, installation of internet facilities, provision of electricity supply and organizing workshops/seminars in related areas among others. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that government should grant permission to business educators to undertake in-service training (locally and internationally) workshops, seminars and conferences in order to keep them abreast with the use of the new technologies and more funds should be provided among others.
Key words: New technologies, integration, challenges, business education courses, tertiary institutions
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