Vol. 14, No. 1, June 2022

This study aimed to examine the utilization of interactive and broadcast technology skills by business education teachers for teaching in colleges of education in Kwara State. Two specific purposes and two research questions were developed and answered while two research hypotheses were formulated and tested. Survey research design was used. 71 business education teachers from selected eight colleges of education in Kwara State were sampled as population for the study. A 20 items questionnaire tagged Utilization of Interactive and Broadcast Technology Skills by Business Education Teachers for Teaching Questionnaire (UIBTSBETTQ) with 4-point rating scales was the instrument used for data collection. The reliability of the instrument yielded 0.71. The data collected were analyzed using mean and standard deviation. The null hypotheses were tested using independent sample t-test and One-way Analysis of Variance at 0.05 level of significance. The study revealed that there was no significant difference in the mean responses of business education teachers on the utilization of interactive and broadcast technology skills for teaching in colleges of education based on gender and their years of experience. Based on the findings and conclusion of the study, it was recommended among others that Colleges of education authorities should take the issue of teachers development and re-training with all the seriousness it deserves by organizing workshops, seminars, conferences and in-service training for teachers of business education to acquire more interactive and broadcast technology skills

Keywords: interactive technology, broadcast technology, technology skills and business education.