ADEQUACY OF E-LEARNING RESOURCES FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING BUSINESS EDUCATION IN SOUTH-WEST UNIVERSITIES, NIGERIA
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E-learning is considered as very attractive as learning paradigm whose effect will be salutary to the development of education in Nigeria considering all its potentialities. There is also the rising of dissatisfaction among employers of labour on the poor usage of e-learning resources by the business education graduates with their competencies in carrying out their job roles. This study assessed adequacy of e-learning resources for effective teaching and learning business education in South-West universities, Nigeria. The study adopted a survey design with total sample of 41 Business Education lecturers and 316 final year Business Education students, this are randomly selected from South-West Nigerian universities. A 30-item structured questionnaire on ‘Adequacy of E-learning Resources Scale’ (AERS) was used as instrument for data collection with 4-points Likert scale. The reliability of the instrument was done using Cronbach Alpha and a coefficient of 0.87 was recorded. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions. The hypotheses were tested using independent-samples t-test and one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) at 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed that the adequacy of e-learning resources was very high (mean=3.34, SD=0.80) and one way ANOVA revealed that there was a significant difference in the mean ratings of respondents on the adequacy of e-learning resources based on state spread (F(2,355)=63.26, p=0.000). It was concluded that business educators can understand how to effectively integrate e-learning resources into their teaching methods leading to improved students learning outcomes. It was therefore recommended among others, that universities in South-West Nigeria should invest in the provision of adequate e-learning resources tailored specifically to the needs of business education.
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Key words:Â Adequacy, E-learning, Learning, Teaching, and Business Education
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