Title: IMPROVING TVET PRACTITIONERS FOR DIGITAL ENTREPRENEURSHIP THROUGH SOCIAL NETWORKING.

Authors:
Ibezim, N. E. & Eze, E. C.

Abstract: Abstract The study was carried out to determine the improvement needs of TVET practitioners for digital entrepreneurship through social networking. Three research questions guided the study while two null hypotheses were tested at p ≤ 0.05 level of significance. Description survey research design was adopted for the study. The population for the study was 770 TVET enterprises and the proportionate sampling techniques was used to select 10% of the population giving a sample size of 77 TVET in Nsukka metropolises. Data was collected using structured questionnaire. The data collected were analyzed using grand and standard deviation for answering the research questions while ANOVA was used for testing the null hypotheses. Findings of the study revealed that most TVET practitioners have high awareness level on the use of social Networking for entrepreneurship, however highly need improvement skills in the use of social networks for enterprise advertisement and in networking with professionals online for entrepreneurial information. The results of the hypotheses showed that there is a significant difference in the mean ratings of TVET practitioners on the awareness level on social Networking for entrepreneurship and a further post hoc, using Duncan test showed that the source of the difference was from welding enterprise practitioners. However, the study showed that there was no significance difference in the mean responses of the practitioners on the improvement skill needs on networking professionals online for expert entrepreneurial information. The study therefore, recommended that TVET centres should organize training and workshop for TVET Practitioners on the identified improvement Skill needs. Keywords: TVET Practitioners, Digital Entrepreneurship, Social Networking and TVET practice

Publication Date: 2018-06-09