INTEGRATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY: KEY FOR FUNCTIONAL SKILLS IN BUSINESS EDUCATION
Abstract
Business education has been recognized to play an important role not just in the production of business teachers but also in the production of workers who have the requisite skills needed to occupy various positions in the work place. These skills are updated from time to time in order to meet up with the demand of business and industry. The emergence of new technologies has made the work of office workers more sophisticated. To meet up with these present technological challenges, there is therefore need for effective integration of these new technologies in business education instructional delivery. When this is done, learners will be equipped with functional skills that will enable them face the challenges of the digital era. The paper dealt on the integration of new technologies in business education instructional delivery as key for functional skills in business education. It x-rayed concepts such as technology, new technology, technology integration, business education, instructional delivery and skill. The paper also highlighted the impact of new technologies in business education instructional delivery among which is integrating new technologies in business education instructional delivery will help produce business education graduates who are confident, effective, independent and equipped to face the challenges of the work place of today rather than producing business education graduates who are not abreast with current technological changes. Factors that will enhance effective integration of new technologies in business education instructional delivery were discussed. The paper concluded that achievement of the objective of any educational programme can be determined by the way instruction is delivered to the recipients of such programme. To these, it requires that implementers of business education adopt appropriate techniques, materials and machines that will enable the learners understand what is being taught. The paper recommended among others that new technological facilities should be made available to institutions and departments offering business education by the authorities concerned.
Keywords: Technology, new technology, technology integration, business education, instruction delivery, skill.
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