Review of Public Administration and Management

Abstract

Emerging Issues in Business Education: A Panacea for Effective Utilization and Application of ICTS as a Tool in Business Education in Nigerian Universities

Ezeani Nneka Salomea and Ishaq Ahmed Mohammed

The business education programme has experienced unprecedented technological changes in the recent years. The new trend in ICTs place greater responsibilities on business educators. If business educators must be the master of the skills and knowledge of ICTs he teaches, he must be retrained regularly as to adapt to the technological changes in education industries. This study seeks to find the extent of utilization and application of ICTs tools in teaching and learning of business education courses in Nigerian universities. A survey design was employed for the study. The population for the study consists of 100 business educators in the universities located in South-East (Abia, Anambra, Enugu, Ebonyi and Imo States). There was no sample; hence the population was very few. A questionnaire containing 5-point Likert type of scale was used. The data generated was analyzed using frequency count and z-test statistics (for research questions and hypothesis respectively), the study reveals that there was no significant difference in the mean scores of male and female business educators regarding the strategies, ICT tools/facilities and problems hindering the teaching and learning of business education courses in the Nigerian Universities, so gender is not a barrier at all. It recommends that the Nigerian government should provide enough capital for the procurement and maintenance of ICT tools.