Utilization of Information and Communication Technology between Older and Younger Lecturers in Business Education in Nigerian Universities in the South-South Geo-Political Zone

This study was conducted to ascertain the level of utilization of information and communication technology equipment in teaching of Business Education courses in the Department of Business Education in Universities in South-South geo-political zone of Nigeria. A population of 117 business education lecturers in seven federal and state universities of south-south geo-political zone of Nigeria was used. The instrument for data collection was a four point scale questionnaire. Three research questions were answered using mean ( ) and standard deviation. Hypotheses 1-3 were tested using ANOVA statistics. All the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Results from the analyzed data showed that the null hypothesis is accepted because the critical p-value is less than P< .05.
The null hypothesis is accepted because the critical p-value is less than P< .05. This is because Lecturers with less years of experience has higher proportion of utilization of ICT equipment more than those Lecturers with long years of experience. The null hypothesis was accepted because the calculated p-value is less than P< .05. This is because Lecturers with lower qualification had a higher proportion of the utilization of ICT equipment more than those with higher qualification. Conclusion and recommendations were made such as University authorities should provide incentives to encourage the older Lecturers to encourage them in ICT training. Government and university authorities should provide electricity as well as solar generating sets for all the universities. Government and university authorities should connect all the universities, faculties as well as departments to ICT nationwide. The government should assist by reducing the high cost of ICT hardware in Nigeria.