POTENTIALS OF ARTIFICIAL INTEL LIGENCE IN ENHANCING TH E QUALITY OF BUSINESS EDUCATION PROGRAMME IN TERTIARY INSTITUTIONS IN ANAMBRA STATE

Abstract

This paper examined the potentials of artificial intelligence in enhancing the quality of business education programme in tertiary institutions in Anambra State. The study was carried in four public tertiary institutions offering business education Anambra State. One research question guided the study Descriptive survey design method was used. The population of the study comprised 113 lecturers teaching business education in the four public tertiary institutions in Anambra State, Nigeria. Census technique was used. Questionnaire was use as instrument for data collection. 20 business education lecture’s  from Delta State were used to test the consistency of the items in the instrument Pilot test was carried out using Cronbach Alpha reliability coefficient which  yielded 0.86 showing that instrument was reliable . The data collected was analyzed using the mean and standard deviation. The finding of the study revealed that machine learning would enhance the quality of business education programme in tertiary institutions in Anambra State to a high extent. The researchers recommended among others that administrators of business education programmes in tertiary institutions should collaborate with technological firms that specialized in the development and modeling of educational artificial intelligence technology for the design of machine learning programmes in order to facilitate effective teaching and learning of  business education programme.