UTILIZATION OF MULTIMEDIA AND HYPERMEDIA TECHNOLOGIES IN THE TERTIARY BUSINESS EDUCATION CLASSROOM IN ANAMBRA STATE
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The study investigated business educators’ utilization of multimedia and hypermedia technologies in tertiary business education classrooms in Anambra State. Three research questions and two hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The design of the study was a descriptive survey. The population of the study comprised all 75 business educators in the department of vocational education in five tertiary institutions in Anambra State. A researcher-developed questionnaire with 47 items which was duly validated by experts in the field was used to collect data. The Cronbach Alpha coefficient for the three clusters yielded co-efficient values of .76, .68 and .70 for section A, B and C respectively with over-all co-coefficient value of .89 which indicated that the instrument was deemed reliable for the study. Mean was used to analyze the data collected. z-test was used in testing the two hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that business educators in tertiary institution in Anambra State do not utilize multimedia and hypermedia technologies in the business
education classrooms. The findings also revealed that disorientation, distraction, cognitive overload, inability to moderate students’ characteristics, lack of methodology in utilizing hypermedia, lack of training, problem of integration of multimedia and hypermedia technologies, absence of multi/hypermedia technologies and unwillingness in the part of business educators to utilize
multimedia and hypermedia technologies were factors affecting the utilization of multimedia and hypermedia in the tertiary business education classrooms. Based on the findings it was recommended among others, that business educators should be trained and retrained on appropriate methodologies of utilizing multimedia and hypermedia in the business education classroom and that federal and state government should make available, funds and infrastructures that will promote the utilization of multimedia and hypermedia technologies.
Keywords: Multi-media Technologies, Hypermedia Technologies, Business Education
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