CHALLENGES MILITATING AGAINST TEACHERS’ ADOPTION OF INTERNET-BASEDMETHOD IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS INSOUTH WEST NIGERIA

Abstract

The paper examines the challenges in adopting the teaching strategy as perceived by teachers in the
delivery of Business Education programme in Tertiary Institutions in South West Nigeria. As a descriptive
study in nature, the population of this study was 255 lecturers in the Departments of Office Technology
and Management and Business Education in government owned ten Polytechnics and ten Colleges of
Education in South-West Nigeria. Four Polytechnics and Four Colleges of Education with a total of 160
lecturers were purposively chosen for the study. One hundred and sixty copies of the adapted and
validated questionnaire with 20 items were personally administered on the lecturers and retrieved by the
researchers. Two research questions guided the study. Data were analysed using mean, percentage and
standard deviation. The findings revealed that Business Educators are familiar with Internet services as
well as the internet-based pedagogy but they were encountered with some barriers in adopting the method
in educational delivery. Limited expertise, energy related problems, unreliable technical infrastructure,
poor connectivity and high cost of data for internet connection, among others, were considered as barriers
to the adoption of internet-based methodology into the classroom. The paper recommended that
Government should provide infrastructural facilities that will lead to faster, reliable and cheaper cost of
internet connectivity among others in order to overcome the barriers to allow for the adoption of internet
as a tool in the hands of Business Educators.