DIGITAL LITERACY SKILLS ACQUISITION: ESSENTIAL TOOL FOR BUSINESS EDUCATORS’ RELEVANCE IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN IMO STATE NIGERIA

Abstract

This study focused on digital literacy skills acquisition as essential tool for business educators’ relevance in tertiary institutions in Imo State Nigeria. Specifically, the study was designed to determine the digital skills that should be acquired by business educators, the constraints in the acquisition of digital skills and the likely solutions to the problems confronting business educators in the acquisition of digital skills for relevance in tertiary institutions in Imo State Nigeria. Three research questions guided the study and one hypothesis was tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population of the study consists of the 56 business educators in tertiary institutions in Imo State where business education and office technology and management programme are offered. The entire population was used for the study since the number is small and relatively manageable, hence there was no sampling. A three sectioned research questionnaire was developed by researchers and validated by experts. The results of the analyses revealed that digital literacy skills acquisition remains essential tool for business educators’ relevance in tertiary institutions in Imo State; that acquisition of digital literacy skill by business educators has suffered a lot of constraints, however concert efforts will adequately address the problems. Based on the findings, it was recommended that every business educator should take personal responsibility to ensure the he/she is acquires relevant digital skills essential to remain relevant in the current scheme of things

Keywords: Digital literacy, skill acquisition, business educators, relevance