Internet Resources and Postgraduate Business Education Research in Universities in South-East and South-South Nigeria: Problems and Way-Forward

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The study focused on problems and way-forward for better utilization of internet resources by postgraduate Business Education Students in Universities in South-East and South-South Nigeria. Two research questions and two null hypotheses guided the study. The study adopted descriptive survey research design. The population for the study comprised of 520 postgraduate students. There was no sampling due to the manageable size of the population. The instrument for data collection was a structured questionnaire. Each item in the questionnaire was assigned five response options of Strongly Agreed, Agreed, Disagreed, Strongly Disagreed and Undecided. The instrument was face-validated by three experts, one from Department of Vocational Education, Business Education Unit, University of Calabar; another one was from Department of Computer Education, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and the third expert was from Department of Educational Psychology, Measurement and Evaluation Unit, University of Benin. Cronbach Alpha technique was used to ascertain the internal consistency of the questionnaire and a reliability coefficient of 0.96 was obtained. Copies of the instrument were administered to the respondents with the help of trained research assistants. Criterion mean value of 2.50 was used for decision making. Findings revealed, among others, that Internet resources are much utilized to source information to write background and Literature Review of research study. The study thus, recommended that regular orientation and re-orientation of Postgraduate Business Education students on the use of Internet resources for research by authorities of educational institutions