Assessment of Digital Tools and Platforms in Revamping Entrepreneurship Education for Skills Acquisition in Colleges of Education in Anambra State

Abstract

The study was undertaken to determine digital tools and platforms for revamping Entrepreneurship

education for skills acquisition in colleges of education in Anambra state. A descriptive survey research

design was adopted for the study. The population of the study was 105 digital literate teaching staff

(respondents) in FCE (T) Umunze and Nwafor Orizu college of Education Nsugbe, all in Anambra

state. The entire population constituted the sample for the study because of the manageable size. Three

research questions were raised and two null hypotheses were formulated that guided the study and was

tested at 0.05 level of significance. An instrument captioned: Digital Tools and Platforms for

Revamping entrepreneurship education for skills acquisition questionnaire (DTPFREEFSA) was

developed by the researchers and used for data collection. The questionnaire was validated by three

specialists and a pilot test of the instrument was carried out. A reliability co-efficient of 0.85 was

obtained using Cronbach Alpha reliability method which was considered appropriate for the study. Data

collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation, while t–test statistic was used to test the

two null hypotheses. Findings revealed among others that lecturers were unaware of the use of digital

tools and platforms for the impartation of entrepreneurial skills. Based on the findings of the study, it

was recommended that teachers should be retrained for capacity development and emerging technology

skills for teaching and learning among others