EXTENT OF APPLICATION OF WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES BY BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN DELTA STATE.

J. I. Ezenwafor, M. O. Onokpaunu

Abstract


The need to equip business education students with competencies for managing the web-oriented business workplace of today necessitated this study, which focused on the extent business education lecturers apply web-based instructional technologies in teaching. One research question and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design was adopted. The entire population of 122 business education lecturers in one university and four colleges of education in Delta State were studied without sampling. A structured and validated questionnaire containing 15 items was used for data collection. Spearman
Brown prophecy formula was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which yielded a coefficient of 0.89. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questionand determine the homogeneity or otherwise of the respondents' views, while the z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that the respondents applied web-based instructional technologies to a low extent in teaching. The extent of application of web-based instructional technologies in teaching by the respondents was not significantly influenced by gender and institution type. It was concluded that graduates of business education
programmes would lack the requisite competencies to cope with the current wave of technological trends shaping today's business world. Therefore, it was recommended among others that, business education lecturers need to get themselves involved in further training in web-based technologies to enable them possess competencies for effective application of web-based instructional technologies in teaching.

Keywords: Web-based instruction, web-based instructional technologies, business education.


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