A COMPETENCIES POSSESSED BY OFFICE TECHNOLOGY AND MANAGEMENT LECTURERS IN POLYTECHNICS IN ANAMBRA AND ENUGU STATES
Keywords:
Assessment, tele-communication competencies, media competencies, OTM, tertiary institutionsAbstract
This study sought to assess the tele-communication and media competencies
possessed by OTM lecturers in tertiary institutions in Anambra and Enugu states. The
study adopted a descriptive survey design. Two research questions guided the study while
two hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The population consisting of 38
OTM lecturers was studied. A validated questionnaire with reliability coefficients of 0.71
and 0.84 was used for data collection. The arithmetic mean and standard deviation were
used to analyze the data in respect of the research questions while ANOVA was used to
test the hypotheses. It was found that respondents possessed both tele-communication and
media competencies at a low extent. The researchers' conclude that the respondents can
hardly produce graduates with tele-communication and media competencies. It is
recommended, among others, that management of Polytechnics should provide adequate
technological resources, technical and administrative support to encourage OTM
lecturers to successfully use ICT in classrooms.
