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ABSTRACT
The Internet has become an essential component of business educators should organize seminars in
students’ everyday life throughout the world. It has schools to enlighten students on how to effectively
revolutionalized the way students communicate, utilize the Internet for their social and overall
interact and socialize. Use of the Internet can have development.
positive or negative influence on students’ overall
development. The need to ensure effective use of the Keyword: Contributions, Internet, Social
Internet by university students necessitated this study Development,
ment, Business Education
to determine its contributions to the social
development of university business education INTRODUCTION
undergraduates in Anambra State. One research Background to the Study
question guided
ided the study and two null hypotheses Education is at the heart of every society as an
were tested at 0.05 level of significance. Survey instrument per excellence in effecting social,
research design was used. Population was 647 intellectual and developmental transformations of a
university business education undergraduates in people. It is in recognition of this fact that
Anambra State of the 2015/2016 academic session. governments commit immense resources to ensure the
Purposive sampling technique que was used to draw a provide education
ucation for their citizens and also tailor
sample size of 156 (63 male and 93 female students) their policies towards ensuring that it is accessible to
for the study. Instrument for data collection was a 55– the generality of their citizenry. The 1990 Longe
point rating scale questionnaire which was duly Commission reviewed Higher Education in Nigeria
validated by three experts. The internal consistency of and noted that education is the most powerful
the instrument was determined
rmined using Cronbach Alpha. instrument for
or social reform. Business education is an
Data were analyzed using the arithmetic mean and essential element of this general education which is
standard deviation to answer the research question required by all citizens regardless of field of interest.
and determine the closeness of respondents’ means According to Isu in Ubulom and Dambo (2016),
while z-test
test and ANOVA were used to ttest the null business education is that type of education that deals
hypotheses at 0.05level of significance. Findings with
ith the acquisition of knowledge, practical skills and
revealed that the respondents strongly agreed that the values that enable an individual to function effectively
Internet contributes to their social development. It was in the society. University business education
also found that Gender and institution ownership did programme aims at producing responsible, productive
not significantly affect the respondents’ mean ratings and self-reliant citizens.
on the contributions
ibutions of the Internet to their social
development. Based on the findings, it was concluded A university is an
n institution of higher education and
that the Internet is a very helpful tool that facilitates research which awards academic degrees in different
students’ social development. It was recommended field at undergraduates and postgraduate levels
among others that parents should monitor their (Aronowitz, 2000). Most university students in
children to see what they do with their time while Nigeria including those studying business education
Results
Table 1: Respondents’ Mean Ratings on the Contributions
ntributions of Internet to the Social Development of
University Business Education Undergraduates
N = 144
S/N Items Mean SD Remarks
Strongly
1. The Internet helps me to make new friends 4.63 0.66
Agree
Strongly
2. Social networks often add to my communicative abilities 4.60 0.63
Agree
It is easy for me to learn more social
3. 4.02 0.99 Agreed
facts from the Internet
Internet helps me in the use of social networks for easy access to my Strongly
4. 4.66 0.56
mails and message Agree
Strongly
5. I easily get news from the Internet 4.69 0.66
Agree
Strongly
6. The Internet helps me to have easy access to my friends. 4.80 0.88
Agree
The use of Internet helps me to easily collaborate with classmates
7. 3.74 0.91 Agree
on social need
Strongly
Cluster Mean 4.59
Agree
Table 1 shows that five out of the seven items have mean rating of 4.6 and above while the remaining two have
mean ratings from 3.74 to 4.02. The cluster mean of 4.59 shows that the respondents strongly agreed that the
Internet contributes to the social development of university business education undergraduates in Anambra
State.
Table 3: (ANOVA) Summary of the Mean Ratings of Business Education Undergraduates in Federal,
State and Private Universities in Anambra State on the Contributions of the Internet to their Social
Development
Sources of Variance Sum Squares Df Mean Square F-cal F-crit Remark
Between Groups 0.1 2 0.05 0.35 3.56 Not Significant
Within Groups 2.57 18 0.142
Total 2.67
Table 3 shows that the F-calcal of 0.35 is less than the F
F-crit
crit of 3.56 at 0.05 level of significance with 2 and 18
degree of freedom. This means that business education undergraduates in federal, state and private institutions
do not differ significantly in their mean ratings on the contributions of the Internet to their social development.
The null hypothesis was therefore upheld.
Discussion
The findings of this study revealed that business The findings also showed that Internet helps
education undergraduates in the area of the study undergraduates learn more communicative skills and
strongly agreed that
hat the Internet contributes to their gain easy access to their mails and messages. This
social development. The findings show that the finding is in line with the report of Mohamed, Fouad,
Internet gives undergraduates easy access to old Ismail and
nd Mohammad (2014) which revealed that
friends and enables them make new friends. These online study groups improves students’ study and
findings are in accordance with that of Sponcil and communicative skills.
Gitimu (2014) which revealed
evealed that the most important
reason given by students for using the Internet was to Recommendations
communicate with family and friends. The study also Based on the findings of this study, it was
revealed that Internet enables students easily access to recommended that:
their mails and messages. This finding also agreed 1. University students should be re-oriented
re on the
with Oladipo
ipo and Mamman (2014) report that need to set their priorities right by exposing them
students use social media platform for to the positive and negative effects of over- over
personal/entertainment
ntertainment purposes with Face Facebook and dependency and unregulated use of the Internet to
e-mail being the favorites. their social development.
2. University lecturers should help educate their
Findings of the study also showed that gender and students on how to effectively utilize Internet for
institution ownership did not significantly factors social
ocial purposes and the impact it will have on
influence
fluence students' mean ratings on the responses on their communicative abilities and collaboration
the contributions of the Internet to their social with friends and classmates on social need.
development. This finding is in contrast with Asabere 3. Parents should monitor their children Internet
(2012) and Enang (2014) who reported that male activities at home to ensure that they use it to
students utilize Facebook and other social networkin
networking communicate with their friends, help them to
sites more than their female counterparts. make new friends and gives them limitless access
to the world.