Application of Modern Instructional Technologies by Business Education Lecturers for Teaching Accounting Courses in Tertiary Institutions in Rivers State

Abstract

The development of technology that altered how people carry out daily duties and find solutions to their problems informed this study, ‘’aapplication of modern instructional technologies by business education lecturers for teaching accounting courses in tertiary institutions in Rivers state.” One specific objective, research question and two null hypotheses guided the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted. From the population of 99 lecturers, census survey sampling technique was adopted. A five-point response options questionnaire was used for data collection, and it was validated by three experts. The reliability of the instrument was established using Cronbach’s alpha which yielded alpha coefficient of 0.88. Mean was used to answer the research question, while one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and t-test were used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Finding of the study shows that the application of multimedia technologies by business education lecturers for teaching accounting courses was at a very low extend. This implies that learners may not be able to acquire the needed multimedia skills to gain decent works and that the high rate of unemployment may continue. Among other things, it was recommended that accounting lecturers should embarked on personal short and long times certificates programme in the utilization of multimedia technologies to enable them acquire the needed skills in using multimedia technologies in teaching accounting courses.