BUSINESS EDUCATION STUDENTS UTILIZATION OF SOCIAL SOFTWARE TECHNOLOGIES FOR SELF-REGULATED LEARNING IN SOUTH-SOUTH NIGERIA

Abstract

The study focused on business education student’s utilization of social software technologies for self regulated learning in south-south Nigeria. The study is a descriptive survey research design. 180 final year students from the Universities and 120 final year students from colleges of education were selected using the simple random technique, from a population of 620 students from 4 universities and 4 colleges of education in South-South Nigeria that offers business education progamme. A questionnaire which was validated by three experts in the field of Business Education and Measurement and Evaluation was used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument was established using pilot study and Cronbach Alpha Method was used for analysis which yielded correlation co-efficient of 0.88. Mean and standard deviation were used for data analysis of the 268 questionnaire retrieved from respondents and t-test analysis was used to test null hypothesis at 0.05 level of significance. Findings indicated that students of Business Education in the Universities and colleges of education in South-South Nigeria are not utilizing social software technologies to self-regulate their learning. It was recommended among others that institutions of higher learning should develop curriculum that will focus students on using social software technology for self regulated learning. Also institutions and lecturers in South-South Nigeria should create environment that can encourage students in using social software technologies for self-regulated learning.