Business Education Students’ Opinions on the Relevance and Challenges of Blended Learning in Teaching and Learning of Business Education in Edo State

Imeokparia Patience O.

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The study examined business education students’ opinions on the relevance and challenges of blended learning in teaching and learning in Edo State. Four research questions were raised to guide the study with two corresponding hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The descriptive survey research design was adopted in the study. The population was 291 final year business education students from the two public universities offering Business education in Edo State The structured questionnaire titled: Blended Learning Questionnaire (BLEQ) was developed by the researcher and was structured in a 4-point likert scale, showing Strongly Agree (4), Agree (3), Disagree (2) and Strongly Disagree (1).The instrument was validated by experts in the field and the Cronbach Alpha was used in obtaining a reliability coefficient of 0.84. The researcher was able to retrieve 209 questionnaires from the respondents and they were subjected to further statistical analysis using Mean, Standard Deviation and the Independent Sample t-test. The Statistical Packages for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 22 was used for this purpose. The findings revealed that blended learning strategy is utilized to a high extent. The analyses of the hypotheses revealed that there was a significant difference in the views of male and female Business education; Federal and State Business education students; Office Technology and Management (OTM) and Accounting Education students as regards blended learning strategy utilization. Based on the findings, a major recommendation advanced was that projectors should be used in delivering lectures.


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