The paper discussed to unveil the economic potentials in business education programme with emphas... more The paper discussed to unveil the economic potentials in business education programme with emphasis on educational and employability capabilities. Inspite of the high unemployment rate of graduates, some scholars have encouraged effective implementation of business education curriculum objectives. The paper made extensive use of these scholarly opinions that derive their basis from national education policy, NCCE business education objective and the SIWES curriculum. The paper concluded that business education programme curriculum has the capability of enhancing graduate self-employment to reduce incidences of graduate unemployment in the country. The paper saw the importance of professionally qualified business educators to teach and administer their programme for effective growth and development. It was recommended among others that the challenge of quality business education teachers need to be pursued with zeal to eliminate the presence of interlopers.
This study examines the impact of institution-community entrepreneurship education ecosystem (ICE... more This study examines the impact of institution-community entrepreneurship education ecosystem (ICEEE) on business education graduates’ jobs creation skill. A descriptive follow up study of 329 Business education degree graduate students in the year 2017 and 2018, using a questionnaire, mean, cluster mean of the responses, and multiple regression analysis revealed that the students learned product-production using the model as well-established small-scale businesses; although not many jobs were created. The effectiveness of the ICEEE model can be experimented in different fields of study to equip students with requisite knowledge and skills for self-reliance. Article visualizations:
The functions and effectiveness of the secretary in every business organization depends on the av... more The functions and effectiveness of the secretary in every business organization depends on the availability of office technologies as well as the skills and competencies of the secretary. Modern business organisations have come to appreciate the role and importance of the secretary as well as the need to providing the needed and necessary office machines and equipment for the efficacy of the secretarial functions. The study covered 40 randomly selected modern business organisations within Port-Harcourt, Nigeria and it’s environ. 40 secretaries were used for the study. 3 instruments namely the modern office technology availability (MOTA), modern office technology and secretary’s usage (MOTSU) and modern office technology and secretary’s productivity (MOTSP) were developed and used for the study. Mean and Chi-square were used to analyse the data collected. The findings of the study revealed the availability of modern office technological gadgets in private business organizations, thei...
This study compared ABEN BMAS with the 2018 NUC BMAS for undergraduate Business Education program... more This study compared ABEN BMAS with the 2018 NUC BMAS for undergraduate Business Education programme. The researchers adopted Bereday (1964) model of comparative education review. To achieve this, a research question was posed. The comparative elements in this study were the core business courses, course codes and course titles. It was discovered that ABEN BMAS contains more business education courses than NUC BMAS. It was also discovered that ABEN BMAS favoured the use of BED codes for business education courses while NUC BMAS favoured the use of EBE for courses that are related to specialized business courses such as ac counting, economics and marketing. It was also discovered that ABEN BMAS contains courses that have become issues of controversies amongst Business educators as well as favoured specialization in Business education programme which the NUC BMAS ignored both . Based on the findings, it was recommended among other things that: Association of Business Educators of Niger...
The paper is aimed at promoting Institution-Community Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem (ICEEE... more The paper is aimed at promoting Institution-Community Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem (ICEEE) model for effective entrepreneurial graduates’ development. This is a partnership between Institution and its host community for the purpose of effective entrepreneurship education. This is informed by the limitation of classroom environment in ensuring the development of all the domains of potential entrepreneurs who can solve the socio-economic needs of their immediate environment. To achieve the purpose of this paper, the concept of entrepreneurship ecosystem was reviewed, the ICEEE model generated based on this partnership was discussed, the roles of every stakeholder in the entrepreneurship education ecosystem were highlighted and the precondition for success in creating this entrepreneurship education ecosystem stated. This model has been partially tested in Federal College of Education (Tech.), Omoku leading to four consecutive students’ products exhibition. The model is applica...
This study provided an experiential instructional design for electronic business (e-business) com... more This study provided an experiential instructional design for electronic business (e-business) competencies development among business education students in colleges of education in Nigeria. To achieve its major purpose, literature evidences on the need of e-business competencies amongst Business education students and the poor state of technologies for learning e-business operations were reviewed. Additional literature on effective instruction, instructional strategy, experiential instructional strategy, experiential learning theory and model which form the basis of the instructional design were also reviewed. The experiential instructional design for e-business competencies development based on Kolb's 4-stages of experiential learning model was provided for use. After a cursory examination of the content of the instructional design, it was concluded that the learning activities suggested and their outcomes would meet diverse learning needs and styles of Business education stude...
This study investigates the acceptability of utilizing e-learning technologies for business educa... more This study investigates the acceptability of utilizing e-learning technologies for business education course-delivery during the period of tertiary institutions lockdown as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in south-south, Nigeria. Hinged on the theory of Technology Acceptance by Davis, F. D, a descriptive survey research design using quantitative and qualitative approach was adopted. Data was collected via questionnaire, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was used for the qualitative approach. The study revealed that business educators utilized elearning technologies to a very low extent during the pandemic. Therefore, strategies to forestall such hindrances and difficulties were identified and discussed.
The study appraised the attainment of final year students’ projects and national youth service co... more The study appraised the attainment of final year students’ projects and national youth service corp. objectives in Nigeria, with the view of recommending an innovative collaboration for economic development and national unity. To achieve this, two research questions were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population and sample of the study was 1200 graduates from the six-geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Researchers developed questionnaire containing 25 items, structured on the basis of two options of high extent and low extent was used for data collection. The questionnaire was faced validated by two lecturers from the University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State. Data collected were analyzed using mean scores. The results of the study showed that although final year project objectives were attained to high extent, lack of utilizing the recommendations from the projects and plagiarism have shrouded the objectives in mystery. The resu...
This study examined the influence of experiential instructional design learning activities propos... more This study examined the influence of experiential instructional design learning activities proposed by Abdulkarim and Ordu (2018) on business education students’ electronic business (e-business) competencies development in Colleges of Education in Rivers State. To achieve the main purpose of the study, two specific purposes, two research questions and one hypothesis were posed. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design to obtain data on participants’ self-evaluation. The population of the study was made up of 22 part-time Business education NCE I students from Federal College of Education (Tech.), Omoku during the 2018/2019 academic session. A research designed questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha to obtain a reliability index of 0.72. Data collected for the study were analysed using mean and simple linear regression. The findings show that the students highly develop e-business compe...
The paper discussed to unveil the economic potentials in business education programme with emphas... more The paper discussed to unveil the economic potentials in business education programme with emphasis on educational and employability capabilities. Inspite of the high unemployment rate of graduates, some scholars have encouraged effective implementation of business education curriculum objectives. The paper made extensive use of these scholarly opinions that derive their basis from national education policy, NCCE business education objective and the SIWES curriculum. The paper concluded that business education programme curriculum has the capability of enhancing graduate self-employment to reduce incidences of graduate unemployment in the country. The paper saw the importance of professionally qualified business educators to teach and administer their programme for effective growth and development. It was recommended among others that the challenge of quality business education teachers need to be pursued with zeal to eliminate the presence of interlopers.
This study examines the impact of institution-community entrepreneurship education ecosystem (ICE... more This study examines the impact of institution-community entrepreneurship education ecosystem (ICEEE) on business education graduates’ jobs creation skill. A descriptive follow up study of 329 Business education degree graduate students in the year 2017 and 2018, using a questionnaire, mean, cluster mean of the responses, and multiple regression analysis revealed that the students learned product-production using the model as well-established small-scale businesses; although not many jobs were created. The effectiveness of the ICEEE model can be experimented in different fields of study to equip students with requisite knowledge and skills for self-reliance. Article visualizations:
The functions and effectiveness of the secretary in every business organization depends on the av... more The functions and effectiveness of the secretary in every business organization depends on the availability of office technologies as well as the skills and competencies of the secretary. Modern business organisations have come to appreciate the role and importance of the secretary as well as the need to providing the needed and necessary office machines and equipment for the efficacy of the secretarial functions. The study covered 40 randomly selected modern business organisations within Port-Harcourt, Nigeria and it’s environ. 40 secretaries were used for the study. 3 instruments namely the modern office technology availability (MOTA), modern office technology and secretary’s usage (MOTSU) and modern office technology and secretary’s productivity (MOTSP) were developed and used for the study. Mean and Chi-square were used to analyse the data collected. The findings of the study revealed the availability of modern office technological gadgets in private business organizations, thei...
This study compared ABEN BMAS with the 2018 NUC BMAS for undergraduate Business Education program... more This study compared ABEN BMAS with the 2018 NUC BMAS for undergraduate Business Education programme. The researchers adopted Bereday (1964) model of comparative education review. To achieve this, a research question was posed. The comparative elements in this study were the core business courses, course codes and course titles. It was discovered that ABEN BMAS contains more business education courses than NUC BMAS. It was also discovered that ABEN BMAS favoured the use of BED codes for business education courses while NUC BMAS favoured the use of EBE for courses that are related to specialized business courses such as ac counting, economics and marketing. It was also discovered that ABEN BMAS contains courses that have become issues of controversies amongst Business educators as well as favoured specialization in Business education programme which the NUC BMAS ignored both . Based on the findings, it was recommended among other things that: Association of Business Educators of Niger...
The paper is aimed at promoting Institution-Community Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem (ICEEE... more The paper is aimed at promoting Institution-Community Entrepreneurship Education Ecosystem (ICEEE) model for effective entrepreneurial graduates’ development. This is a partnership between Institution and its host community for the purpose of effective entrepreneurship education. This is informed by the limitation of classroom environment in ensuring the development of all the domains of potential entrepreneurs who can solve the socio-economic needs of their immediate environment. To achieve the purpose of this paper, the concept of entrepreneurship ecosystem was reviewed, the ICEEE model generated based on this partnership was discussed, the roles of every stakeholder in the entrepreneurship education ecosystem were highlighted and the precondition for success in creating this entrepreneurship education ecosystem stated. This model has been partially tested in Federal College of Education (Tech.), Omoku leading to four consecutive students’ products exhibition. The model is applica...
This study provided an experiential instructional design for electronic business (e-business) com... more This study provided an experiential instructional design for electronic business (e-business) competencies development among business education students in colleges of education in Nigeria. To achieve its major purpose, literature evidences on the need of e-business competencies amongst Business education students and the poor state of technologies for learning e-business operations were reviewed. Additional literature on effective instruction, instructional strategy, experiential instructional strategy, experiential learning theory and model which form the basis of the instructional design were also reviewed. The experiential instructional design for e-business competencies development based on Kolb's 4-stages of experiential learning model was provided for use. After a cursory examination of the content of the instructional design, it was concluded that the learning activities suggested and their outcomes would meet diverse learning needs and styles of Business education stude...
This study investigates the acceptability of utilizing e-learning technologies for business educa... more This study investigates the acceptability of utilizing e-learning technologies for business education course-delivery during the period of tertiary institutions lockdown as a result of COVID-19 pandemic in south-south, Nigeria. Hinged on the theory of Technology Acceptance by Davis, F. D, a descriptive survey research design using quantitative and qualitative approach was adopted. Data was collected via questionnaire, and Focus Group Discussion (FGD) was used for the qualitative approach. The study revealed that business educators utilized elearning technologies to a very low extent during the pandemic. Therefore, strategies to forestall such hindrances and difficulties were identified and discussed.
The study appraised the attainment of final year students’ projects and national youth service co... more The study appraised the attainment of final year students’ projects and national youth service corp. objectives in Nigeria, with the view of recommending an innovative collaboration for economic development and national unity. To achieve this, two research questions were formulated to guide the study. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population and sample of the study was 1200 graduates from the six-geopolitical zones in Nigeria. Researchers developed questionnaire containing 25 items, structured on the basis of two options of high extent and low extent was used for data collection. The questionnaire was faced validated by two lecturers from the University of Uyo, Akwa-Ibom State. Data collected were analyzed using mean scores. The results of the study showed that although final year project objectives were attained to high extent, lack of utilizing the recommendations from the projects and plagiarism have shrouded the objectives in mystery. The resu...
This study examined the influence of experiential instructional design learning activities propos... more This study examined the influence of experiential instructional design learning activities proposed by Abdulkarim and Ordu (2018) on business education students’ electronic business (e-business) competencies development in Colleges of Education in Rivers State. To achieve the main purpose of the study, two specific purposes, two research questions and one hypothesis were posed. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design to obtain data on participants’ self-evaluation. The population of the study was made up of 22 part-time Business education NCE I students from Federal College of Education (Tech.), Omoku during the 2018/2019 academic session. A research designed questionnaire was used to collect data for the study. The reliability of the instrument was determined using Cronbach alpha to obtain a reliability index of 0.72. Data collected for the study were analysed using mean and simple linear regression. The findings show that the students highly develop e-business compe...
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