Al-Hikmah University Journal

This study examined the utilization of internet and mobile technology skills by business education teachers for teaching in colleges of education in Kwara State.  To facilitate the conduct of the study, two specific purposes and two research questions were developed and answered while two research hypotheses were formulated and tested. Survey research design was used. 71 business education teachers from eight colleges of education in Kwara State were used as population. The researcher used the entire population for the study, A 20 items questionnaire tagged Utilization of Internet and Mobile Technology Skills by Business Education Teachers for Teaching Questionnaire (UIMTSBETTQ) with 4-point rating scales was the instrument used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument yielded a reliability coefficient of 0.71. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The null hypotheses were tested using independent sample t-test and One-way Analysis of Variance at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses of business education teachers on the utilization of internet and mobile technology skills for teaching in colleges of education based on gender and their years of experience. Based on the findings and conclusion of the study, it was recommended among others that Colleges of education authorities should take the issue of teachers development and re-training with all the seriousness it deserves by organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and in-service training for teachers of business education to acquire more internet and mobile technology skills.