DIGITAL LEARNING UTILIZATION AND ENTREPRENEURS SKILLS DEVELOPMENT AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS IN IMO STATE

Abstract

The study investigated digital learning facility utilization and entrepreneurs’ skills development
among university students in Imo State. The study adopted the correlational research design.
Three research questions guided the study. The population of the study was 20,163 respondents
comprising of 300 level students of the two selected public universities in Imo State, Nigeria.
The sample for the study was 472 respondents representing 2.34% of the entire population. The
sampling was composed in multi-stage which included: purposive, simple random and cluster
sampling techniques. Rating scale was the instrument used for data collection. The instrument
was validated by five specialists, and reliability of the instrument determined using test re-test
method. The research questions were answered, using Pearson product moment correlation
coefficient. Findings revealed among others that there is a high and positive relationship between
digital learning facility utilization and opportunity recognition entrepreneurs’ skills development
among the university students. It was recommended among others that students should
endeavour to enhance their level of utilization of digital learning facilities in the universities, in
order to improve their opportunity recognition entrepreneurs’ skill development