UTILIZATION OF INTERACTIVE AND BROADCAST TECHNOLOGY SKILLS BY BUSINESS EDUCATION TEACHERS FOR TEACHING IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION

This study aimed to examine the utilization of interactive and broadcast technology skills by business education
teachers for teaching in colleges of education in Kwara State. Two specific purposes and two research questions were
developed and answered while two research hypotheses were formulated and tested. Survey research design was used.
71 business education teachers from selected eight colleges of education in Kwara State were sampled as population
for the study. A 20 items questionnaire tagged Utilization of Interactive and Broadcast Technology Skills by Business
Education Teachers for Teaching Questionnaire (UIBTSBETTQ) with 4-point rating scales was the instrument used
for data collection. The reliability of the instrument yielded 0.71. The data collected were analyzed using mean and
standard deviation. The null hypotheses were tested using independent sample t-test and One-way Analysis of
Variance at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses
of business education teachers on the utilization of interactive and broadcast technology skills for teaching in colleges
of education based on gender and their years of experience. Based on the findings and conclusion of the study, it was
recommended among others that Colleges of education authorities should take the issue of teachers development and
re-training with all the seriousness it deserves by organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and in-service
training for teachers of business education to acquire more interactive and broadcast technology skills.