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Digital Literacy and Entrepreneurial Intentions of Business Education Students in Tertiary Institutions

Onwubuya, Uju Nkiru (Ph.D), Ikechukwu Chidiebere Odogwu

Abstract

The advancement in technology is revolutionizing the way activities of the 21 st -century business environment are being conducted. It saddening to note that despite the array of opportunities for jobs provided by technology, the high rate of unemployment among business education graduates has continued to be a course for concern. Therefore in a bid to stem this problem that it becomes imperative to determine the correlation between digital literacy and entrepreneurial intentions of business education students in tertiary institutions. The survey design was adopted for the study and the population of the study comprised 338 three hundred (300) level business education students in the 2022/2023 academic session from the four public tertiary institutions offering business education programmes in Anambra State. Two structured questionnaires were used to collect data for the study. The data was analyzed using the Bivariate Pearson Correlation matrix and simple linear regression techniques. Technology skills, digital communication, digital safety, and media literacy were found to be substantially connected with the entrepreneurial inclinations of business education students.

Keywords

Digital LiteracyTechnology SkillsDigital CommunicationDigital SafetyMedia LiteracyEntrepreneurial Intentions

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