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Availability And Utilization Of Ict In Teaching And Learning Business Education Courses
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1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Over
the years there has been a general poor performance in business
education courses, this is not only applicable in secondary examinations
were business education subjects are taught but also in university
precisely under business education most students who enrol in business
education department do not graduate successfully with their mate.
Unfortunately,
in Ebonyi State University in Department of Business Education, there
are little or no ICT tools for teaching and learning in various
classrooms. teaching and learning method in the class rooms in
department of business education still adopt the old traditional method
of teaching, where the teacher acts at repertoire of knowledge while
student are busy coping what is said and expected to vomit them verbatim
during examination. It is worrisome because this has led to massive
failure in examinations as the students are rarely grounded in their
learning but are mainly subjected to mere memorization of the topics
taught.
The present study contributes to the literature on
the use of ICT in education by examining the availability and level of
utilization of ICT in teaching and learning of business education
courses in Ebonyi state university.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The
main purpose of the study is to determine the availability and the
level of utilization of ICT in teaching and learning of business
education courses in Ebonyi State University. The specific objectives
are
1. To ascertain the availability of interactive ICT in
teaching and learning of business education courses in Ebonyi State
University.
2. To ascertain the level of utilization of
interactive ICT in teaching and learning of business education courses
in Ebonyi state university.
3. To determine the availability
of non-interactive ICT in teaching and learning of business education in
Ebonyi state university.
4. To determine the level of
utilization of non- interactive ICT in teaching and learning of business
education courses in Ebonyi state university.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings of the study will be of immense benefit to the students,
teachers, education shake holders, the government philanthropists.
Information
and communication technology is of great important to teachers and
students of business education in Ebonyi State University; this is
because from this research, they will able to ascertain the important of
information and communication in teaching and learning.
Secondly,
this work will be of great important to educational stakeholders. This
is because from the research they will be able to know the plight of the
student and therefore work out modalities to solve the problems.
Thirdly,
this work will be of great important to the government through the
ministry of education they would be able to ascertain the course of poor
performance of the student of business education and work out
modalities to solve the problems.
Furthermore, the work will be of
great important to the philanthropists in the area, this is because from
the work, they will be able to identify problem of students in studying
business education. This will encourage them to donate information and
communication technology tools that will be used in teaching and
learning in the area.
Finally, the findings would be useful to
curriculum planners.
Curriculum planners who would wish to resolve the issue of the
availability and utilization ICT instructional materials may have cause
to know the true situation and properly restructure business education
programme curriculum to take care of inadequacies. Curriculum planners
would be more objective when the findings are taken to consideration.
1.5 RESEARCH QUESTIONS
The following research question’s guided the study:
1.
To what extent are interactive ICT available for teaching and learning
of business education courses in Ebonyi State University?
2. To
what extent are interactive ICT utilized in teaching and learning of
business education courses in Ebonyi State University?
3. To what extent are non interactive ICT available for teaching business education courses in Ebonyi State University?
4.
To what extent are non interactive ICT utilized in teaching and
learning of business education courses in Ebonyi State University?
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ABSRACT - [ Total Page(s): 1 ]The study examines the availability and level of utilization of ICT in teaching and learning of business education courses in Ebonyi State University Abakaliki. The survey design was adopted in the study. A population of 240 respondents was used in the study. A sample of 180 respondents comprising business education students was selected using the simple random sampling technique. The technique of Mean and frequencies were employed in data analysis. The findings of the study indicate interactive ... Continue reading---
