Effects of Information Communication Technology in Achieving Entrepreneurship Objectives in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria for Sustainable Development
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The study sought to find out the effects of Information Communication Technology (ICT) in achieving entrepreneurship objectives in Tertiary Institution in Nigeria. The role played by ICT in almost all spheres of human endeavour for greater productivity cannot be over-emphasized. There is the need to move Nigeria with the rest of the world further in thus information age when technology is advancing. The objective of the study among others was to determine the rate at which Entrepreneurship education skills acquisition could be enhanced among students taught with the use of ICT and those taught with the conventional method of teachings. Hypotheses were drawn from the objectives of the study. The area of the study was Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo. The instrument used for data collection was a multiple choice entrepreneurship test. The targeted population were the five thousand degree students in Emmanuel Alayande University of Education, Oyo. A stratified random sampling technique was adopted to draw two hundred entrepreneurship students. The hypothesis was tested, at 0.05 level of significance for acceptance or rejection. The results amongst others revealed that students taught with the use of ICT performed significantly better than those taught without ICT and also the result slows that the use of ICT in teaching entrepreneurship is not significantly affected by school location. This paper looked at the objectives of entrepreneurship education, challenges of the use of ICTs for its development and came up with some recommendations and conclusion.
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