Business education lecturers’ perception and utilization of mobile learning technologies in enhancing course delivery in universities in South-east, Nigeria

Abstract

The need to enhance the teaching of business education courses necessitated this study. The study determined business education lecturers’ perception and utilization of mobile learning technologies in enhancing course delivery in universities in South-East, Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. It adopted survey research design, with 124 business education lecturers in public universities offering business education programme in South-East, Nigeria. A-20 item structured questionnaire which was validated by three experts in the field of education was used for data collection. Reliability of the instrument was analyzed using Cronbach alpha formula which yielded correlation coefficients of.87 and.79 for clusters B1 and B2 with an overall coefficient of .83 obtained. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions and determine the homogeneity of the respondents’ mean responses while t-test was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings revealed that business education lecturers in South East, Nigerian universities agree that the use of mobile learning technologies enhances course delivery. They however disagree that they use some of these mobile learning technologies in their course delivery. Their perceptions of the majority of these technologies differ significantly, but there was no discernible gender difference in how they felt about using them. Based on the findings of the study, the research concluded that although business education lecturers at South East Nigerian universities generally concur that mobile learning technologies could improve the way they deliver their courses, they do not yet make extensive use of the majority of these tools in their instructional delivery. It was recommended that the administrators of universities in South East, Nigeria should implement strategies to encourage and support business education lecturers in actively utilizing mobile learning technologies in their course delivery. This involves providing training, resources, and infrastructure to facilitate the practical application of these tools.