EXTENT OF UTILIZATION OF SOCIAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR ENHANCING SELF-REGULATED LEARNING BY BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS IN ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA

C. C. Okolocha, Faith Chukwudi Nwaukwa

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The need to improve students' self-regulated earning necessitated this study to determine the extent of utilization of social software technologies for enhancing self-regulated learning by business education students in Anambra State, Nigeria. Two research questions guided the study. The study adopted descriptivesurvey research design and the population of the study comprised 150 (48 male and 102 female) 2018/2019 academic session final year businesseducation students in the two tertiary institutions where business education programme is offered. There was no sampling since the population was manageable. A questionnaire which was validated by three experts in the field of business education and measurement and evaluation was used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument was established using pilot study and analysis carried out using Cronbach alpha method yielded correlation coefficients of 0.88 and 0.81 for cluster B1 and B2 respectively with an overall value of 0.85. Mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis. Findings showed that business education students are not utilizing social software technologies to self-regulate their learning and to develop their self-regulated learning strategies. The researchers recommended among others that; business education lecturers should incorporate social software technologies in instructional delivery. This is because their students must learn to use these technologies that workers use in professional careers. Failing to do so will widen already existing gap between industry and university education.

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