EXTENT OF APPLICATION OF WEB-BASED INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGIES BY BUSINESS EDUCATION LECTURERS IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN DELTA STATE.

Abstract

The need to equip business education students with competencies for managing the weboriented business workplace of today necessitated this study, which focused on the extent
business education lecturers apply web-based instructional technologies in teaching. One
research question and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey design
was adopted. The entire population of 122 business education lecturers in one university
and four colleges of education in Delta State were studied without sampling. A structured
and validated questionnaire containing 15 items was used for data collection. Spearman
Brown prophecy formula was used to establish the reliability of the instrument which
yielded a coefficient of 0.89. Data collected were analyzed using mean and standard
deviation to answer the research questionand determine the homogeneity or otherwise of
the respondents' views, while the z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of
significance. Findings revealed that the respondents applied web-based instructional
technologies to a low extent in teaching. The extent of application of web-based
instructional technologies in teaching by the respondents was not significantly influenced
by gender and institution type. It was concluded that graduates of business education
programmes would lack the requisite competencies to cope with the current wave of
technological trends shaping today's business world. Therefore, it was recommended
among othersthat, business education lecturers need to get themselves involved in further
training in web-based technologies to enable them possess competencies for effective
application of web-based instructional technologies in teaching.