DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES INTEGRATION IN BUSINESS EDUCATION AS CORRELATE OF STUDENTS’ PARTICIPATION IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP PRACTICES IN SOUTH-EAST, NIGERIA

Abstract

The study examined digital technologies integration in Business Education as correlate of students’ participation in entrepreneurship practices in South-East, Nigeria. The study was guided by three research questions and three null hypotheses. Correlational survey research design was adopted. The population of the study was 245 Business Education students in Government own Colleges of Education in South-East. The sample of the study was 152 comprising Business Education students. The sampling technique adopted was purposive sampling technique to drawn the actually final year Business Education students. The instruments were structured questionnaires tagged: “Digital Technologies Integration Questionnaire (DTQ)’’ and Students’ Participation in Entrepreneurship Practices Questionnaire (SPEPQ). The instruments were faced validated by three experts. The reliability of the instruments were 0.82 and 0.83 obtained for DTIBEQ and SPEPQ using Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient (PPMCC). The data collected were analysed using Pearson Moment Correlation Coefficient to answer the research questions while Linear Regression analysis was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that social media networks, mobile technology and Artificial Intelligence integration in Business Education programme to high extent correlates to students’ participation in entrepreneurship practices. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that there is need for Business Educators in tertiary institutions to ensure that digital technology such as social media networks are adopted in training students on how to deploy the social media as veritable instrument for the acquisition and mastery of creativity and innovation for entrepreneurship activities.