Social Media. A Panacea for Collaborative Professional Development of Business Educators in Nigeria

Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2015 im Fachbereich BWL - Marketing, Unternehmenskommunikation, CRM, Marktforschung, Social Media, , Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Business educators can benefit from collaborative professional development through the use of social media. This is necessary in order to properly prepare students for the world of works. The study focused on the use of social media, social networking sites, and the benefits of using social media in Nigeria. The study identified Face book, Twitter, LinkedIn, Google+, internet forums, chat rooms and message boards, video and photo sharing sites like YouTube, Flicker and Video, blogs, wikis, and social book marking as social media tools that can be used for collaborative professional development of business educators in Nigeria. It was recommended that Business educators should form collaborative professional development through social media where they can be dedicated to explore and experiment with new approaches and ideas for effective teaching and learning of business subjects.

Business teacher education is that part of vocational and technical education that provides knowledge, skills and competencies for a teaching career in academics, office occupation and for self-reliance. Ekpenyong stated that business teacher education exist with emphasis geared towards creating or offering employment opportunities covering wide range of training requirements from certain semi-skilled jobs, to teaching, managerial and executive positions. Ezeani opined that business education as a discipline is expected to expose its recipients to diversity curricula that inculcate attitudes, knowledge, skills, values that are required in the business world. It is a means of producing a healthy, literate, self-reliant citizens that would create wealth for human development and self- employment, resulting to sustainable national development. The need to redesign teacher education according to Agomuo and Enang especially business educators is increasingly imperative. Business educators should therefore, vast in using social media for collaborative professional development.