Digital Literacy Skills among Students Pursuing Business Administration Programmes in Business Institutes in Tanzania

Abstract

This study examines the extent to which BAI students are
empowered by DLS and establish the specific way in which
such students use DLS. This study was conducted at four
(4) BAIs under NACTVET, namely, Institute of Arusha
Accountancy (IAA), Institute of Finance Management
(IFM), Institute of Tax Administration (ITA) and Tanzania
Institute of Accountancy (TIA). The Researcher collected
primary data from final year-students. The research
applied the multi-sampling technique assisted by
purposive, stratified, and convenience sampling
approaches to collect data from the sample of 500
respondents. The findings of this study concludes that, the
majority of surveyed students in the two BAIs in Tanzania
acquired operation skills and collaboration skills to a
large extent while they attained awareness skills and
thinking skills to a small extent. The majority of the BAIs’
students applied operation and thinking skills in academic
issues while collaboration and awareness skills were
applied in non-academic issues. The findings also showed
that curriculum, internet connectivity, instructors’
competence, and information data literacy are the major
factors that limit the adoption of digital literacy among the
BAI’s students. The findings of this study recommend the
BAIs to continuously impart more DLS to their students in
order to enable them to balance the application of DLS in
their daily life, both academic and non-academic. This
calls for both private and public investment in DLS in BAIs
in Tanzania.