DISTANCE LEARNING/E-LEARNING CONCEPTUAL LEVEL BY BUSINESS EDUCATORS AND BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS
Abstract
This study was designed to examine the distance/e-learning conceptual level by business educators and business education students in eleven colleges of education in south-west Nigeria. The survey design adopted focused on a population of 128 business educators and 550 business education students. Mean statistic was used to answer the three research questions used for the study. Results show that both business educators and students have high conceptual level of e-learning for the teaching and learning of business education courses. However, business educators noted poor electricity supply as the most limiting factor for the use of e-learning in the teaching and learning of
business education, while students on their part bemoaned lack of well designed distance/e-learning curriculum for education programme as the most limiting factor. Recommendations include recurriculation of business education programme to imbibe heavy doses of distance/e-learning technology; modalities of distance/e-learning should be properly explained to business educators and
students to drive home in detail, the opportunity inherent in learning technology among others.
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