HARNESSING TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS FOR EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION OF UNIVERSITY BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN SOUTH-EAST

The study determined Business Educator’s opinion on the strategies for harnessing technological innovations for effective implementation of university Business Education programme in South-East. The study adopted a survey research design. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire entitled; Harnessing technological Innovations for effective Implementation of University Business Education programme Questionnaire (HTIFEIOUBEPQ). The instrument was validated by three experts. The reliability was done using Cronbach Alpha which yielded coefficient of 0.68; indicating that the instrument is reliable. The population for the study consisted of 80 Business Educators from both federal and state universities in South East offering Business Education programme. There was no sampling since the population is manageable. The null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test. Results of the data analysis relating to the study have shown that instructional and digital related strategies respectively will harness technological innovation for effective implementation of university Business Education progrmme in South East. Business Educators in federal and their counterparts in the state did not differ significantly on instructional and digital tools related strategies respectively. Based on the findings, it was recommended that Business Educators should be exposed to technological innovations. Again, the use of digital tools should be made compulsory to Business Educators