APPLICATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN TEACHING BUSINESS EDUCATION COURSES IN RIVERS STATE TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is rapidly enhancing teaching and learning process, and streamline administrative tasks globally. Therefore, this study determined application of artificial intelligence (AI) in teaching business education courses in River‟s state tertiary institutions. Two research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. From a population of 62 business education lecturers, a census survey sampling was employed. A four-point response options questionnaire was used for data collection, and it was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach‟s alpha which yielded coefficients of 0.81 and 0.80. Mean and Standard Deviation were used to answer the two research questions and measure the spread in respondents` opinions, while one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) was used to test the two null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealedthat all the listed types of AI were highly needed forteaching business education courses, and that all the different types of AI stated for teaching business education courses were very highly beneficial. Based on the findings, it was concluded that if AI is included in the teaching of business education courses, it will transform the programme positively, lead to AI skills development and enable the learners to acquire the needed AI employability skills for the global workplace. Therefore, among other things, it was recommended that AI should be included in the business education curriculum through yearly internal curriculum review by lecturers in collaboration with their institutions and five years national review by all level of government. Also, lecturers should be trained and retrained on the application of AIsforteaching business education courses in River‟s state tertiary institutions to enable them transfer the skills to learners.
Keywords: Artificial intelligence (AI), application of artificial intelligence, teaching business education courses.
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