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CHALLENGES MILITATING AGAINST TEACHERS’ ADOPTION OF INTERNET-BASED METHOD IN BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN SOUTH WEST NIGERIA

Ajani, Safurat Toyin (Ph.D); Ojeyomi, Oluremi Adesina & Akeke, Rita Adenike

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.

Keywords: Challenges, Internet, Business Education, Higher Institutions
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