APPLICATION OF NEW TECHNOLOGIES AND MENTORING STRATEGIES IN BUSINESS EDUCATION IN RIVERS STATE

Abstract

The study investigated application of new technologies and mentoring strategies in business education. Two research questions were posed to guide the study while one hypothesis was formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. A total of 26 lecturers and 293 final year students, totalling 319 were studied out of 1,061 population. The instrument for the study was named Application of New Technologies and Mentoring Strategies in Business Education Questionnaire (ANTMSBEQ), with a modified four point Likert scale ranging from highly-applied to not-applied. 6 lecturers and 20 students validated the instrument and a reliability test using test-retest method yielded a correlation of 0.89 and 0.87. Mean rating was used to answer the research questions while Z-test was used to test the hypothesis. Findings revealed that new technologies and mentoring strategies are not applied in business education for both teaching and learning. Based on the findings, recommendations made amongst others were that new technologies like overhead projector, computer-based work station and video-conferencing should be applied in business education for both teaching and learning; mentoring strategies and techniques should be applied to assist both students and newly employed lecturers in business education department.