BUSINESS EDUCATORS' PERCEPTIONS ON THE UTILIZATION OF E-LEARNING TECHNOLOGIES FOR EFFECTIVE TEACHING IN UNIVERSITIES IN SOUTH EAST OF NIGERIA

The main purpose of the study was to determine the Business Educators’ perception in the utilization of e-learning technologies for effective teaching in universities in South-East States of Nigeria. The study was guided by two research question and two null hypotheses. The population was 95 Business Educators selected from 8 public tertiary institutions offering Business Education in South East States of Nigeria. Census sampling was used since the population was of manageable size. The instrument used for data collection was a 22-item questionnaire developed by the researcher. The instrument was validated by three experts and the reliability of the instrument was determined using Crombach Alpha which yielded reliability index of 0.77. The instrument was administered by the researcher and three research assistants. 82 out of 95 copies of questionnaire were well responded to, returned and used for data analysis representing 88.17 percent return rate. Mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis and t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses. Findings show that Business Educators’ have positive perception on the utilization of e-learning hardware instant messaging technologies for effective teaching of business education in digital era in universities. The null hypotheses showed that there is no significant difference regarding the items on the mean scores of male and female Business Educators’ perceptions on the utilization of e-learning hardware and instant messaging technologies for effective teaching in universities in South-East of Nigeria. Based on the finding it was recommended among others that Business Educators should develop their individual capacity on the e-learning technologies for effective instructional delivery and that the government and concerned bodies in education should provide e-learning technologies and complementing facilities for effective instructional delivery in universities