SMART FACILITIES AND INSTRUCTIONAL DELIVERY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN COLLEGES OF EDUCATION, SOUTH-SOUTH, NIGERIA.

Abstract

The study examined how smart facilities can enhance instructional delivery of Business Education programme in Colleges of Education in South-South Nigeria.  Three hypotheses were raised in this study.  The population for the study was two hundred and fifty-one business educators in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. There was no sampling as the entire population was used in the study while 227 were used for data analysis indicating the number of questionnaires that were returned. The research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation. The mean figures were 3.0 and above which showed a high extent response from the respondents to the questions posed. While the hypotheses were tested using t-test statistical tool at 0.05 significant level. It was found out that male and female, experienced and inexperienced business educator smart facilities have high extent of influence on content delivery and supervision, skills development as well as educators’ expectations among other findings. It is therefore concluded that smart facilities highly enhance instructional delivery of Business Education programme in colleges of education in South-South Nigeria.