Technology Skill Needs Of Business Lecturers for Effective Teaching in Colleges of Education in Enugu, Nigeria

Abstract

This study sought to determine the technology skill improvement needs of lecturers of business education for effective teaching of students in colleges of education in Enugu State, Nigeria. To achieve these objectives, four research questions were answered by the study while four null hypotheses were tested at 0. 05 level of significance. The study made use of action group design approved by the function of industry model. The population for the study was 88 respondents comprising: Lecturers from the Departments of Business and Computer Education from tertiary institutions and hi-tech bankers from marketing units of commercial banks in Enugu State. The instrument for data collection is questionnaire. The instrument was validated by three experts: The reliability coefficient of 0.83 was obtained through Cronbach Alpha method. The data collected was analysed using weighted mean, and improvement need index (INI) to answer the research questions while ANOVA was used to test the null hypotheses. It was found from the study that lecturers of business education from the colleges of education in Enugu State needed improvement in 21 computing skills, 28 online commerce skills, 9 e-collaboration skills and 14 online security skills. This revealed a wide skill needs gap, suggesting that lecturers of business education have not been effectively imparting the necessary knowledge, skills and attitudes to students in the area of digital technologies for office jobs. It was therefore, recommended that the identified technology competency skill items be utilized to retrain the lecturers through workshops and in-service training.