SOURCE:

Faculty: Education
Department: Technology Education

CONTRIBUTORS:

Okoro, O. B.
Ibeneme, O. T.

ABSTRACT:

The introduction of office technology and management programme which is characterized by convergence of computer, telecommunication, internet and information and communication technology competencies, raised a national debate both in periodicals and in business education conferences as to whether the office technology contents in business education programme of universities are adequate for producing competent OTM educators. Therefore, this study was designed to examine perceived adequacy of office technology contents in business education programme of universities in South-south and South-east Nigeria. Five research questions were raised to guide the study while ten null hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted the descriptive survey design. The entire population of 126 business educators in universities in South-south and South-east Nigeria were used for the study. Data werecollected for the study through the administration of validated questionnaire on the respondents. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach alpha (α) reliability test. The overall reliability coefficients obtained was 0.76. The mean statistic was used to answer the research questions while the t-test statistic was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that business educators perceived computer technology and networking technology contents in business education programme of universities adequate. However, telecommunication technology, multimedia technology and desktop publishing technology contents were perceived inadequate. Based on the findings of the study, conclusion was drawn and implications of the studywere discussed. Relevant recommendations were made towards the improvement of quality of business education programme in universities in Nigeria which include that the contents of telecommunication technology, multimedia technology and desktop publishing technology in business education programme of universities should be reviewed in line with the contents of OTM programme so that graduates of business education programme can perform effectively as OTM educators.