Abstract
Inclusive and entrepreneurship development in Educational Technology programme has become a veritable tool to equip our graduates with entrepreneurial skills. This is in order to enable them fit into the 21 century global system workforce. The program targets graduates who need Entrepreneurship development using educational technology (EduTech) to acquire a range of skills essential for success in today's rapidly changing economy which include digital literacy, online marketing, data analysis, web development and creative problem-solving. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population of the study is 102 subjects. The population comprised 82 Final-Year students of Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education, University of Nigeria Nsukka and 20 lecturers in the Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education, University of Nigeria Nsukka Enugu State. Due to the manageable size of the population, there was no sampling as the entire population was used for the study. A 25 item questionnaire was developed to obtain data for the study. A 5-point Likert scale was used to develop the questionnaire. The scale for the questionnaire was Strongly Agree (SA) - 5, Agree (A) - 4, Undecided (UD) – 3, Disagree (D) - 2 and Strongly Disagree (SD) - 1. The questionnaire was face validated by three experts from the Faculty of Vocational and Technical Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka. The mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions, while the Cronbach alpha was used to determine internal consistency of the instrument. A reliability coefficient of 0.85 was obtained for the instrument. Arithmetic mean of 3.50 was used to interpret the analyzed data. An item with a mean of 3.50 and above was accepted, while items having their mean below 3.50 were rejected while t-test was used for testing the null hypothesis at probability of 0.05 level of significance and relevant degree of freedom. The findings of this study showed that entrepreneurship education has significant effects on graduates in EduTech fitting into the global 21 century workforce. The study recommends that Ministry of Education should create an inclusive environment that supports the development of entrepreneurial skills that connect the graduates with relevant resources and networks in promoting entrepreneurship skill development in educational technology.
Keywords: Education, Entrepreneurship, Inclusive Skills, Technology.
Publication Date: 2023-12-09