Emerging office Technologies and Challenges in the Delivery of Business Education in Tertiary Institutions in South-South Nigeria
Dr Ekwue, Kenneth Chinedu, Mayah, Eunice, Obasi, Hope Onyinyechi
Abstract
The study investigated the emerging office technologies and challenges in the delivery of Business Education in tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. Two research questions and hypotheses were raised in line with the purpose of the study. The research design adopted for the study was descriptive survey. The population comprised of 175 Business education lecturers across all tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. The sample consisted of the 175 Business Education lecturers in tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria. The rationale for using the entire population is because the researcher considered it small and manageable. The instruments used for data collection was a structured questionnaire. In order to determine the validity, the instrument was given to three experts in the department of Vocational and Technical Education, Faculty of Education, University of Benin, Benin City, Edo State, their corrections were incorporated in the final instrument. The instrument yielded a reliability result of 0.74 by employing the Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (r) to measure the degree of consistency, this showed that the instrument was reliable. The data collected from the field were analyzed using mean, standard deviation for research questions while t-test statistical tools was used to analyze the hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that change in office technology is posing a lot of challenges to the delivery of Business education in tertiary institutions in South- South Nigeria. Findings revealed that emerging office technologies are not available in the delivery of business education programme in in tertiary institutions South-South Nigeria and changes in office technology pose a lot of challenges to the delivery of Business Education in tertiary institutions in South-South Nigeria among others. It was recommended that retraining programmes should be intensified for all trainable instruct
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