Abstract:
The main purpose of this study was to assess the instructional facilities for training Office Technology and Management (OTM) students in universities for the digitalised office. Specifically, the study investigated the availability of instructional facilities such as classrooms, computer laboratories, e-libraries, model offices and seminar rooms for training OTM students in universities for digitalised office. To achieve these purposes, five
research questions were raised. The study adopted an ex-post facto research design as the population of the study comprised the items of the instructional facilities, while a standard checklist was constructed to determine the availability of these instructional facilities. This checklist was validated by expert in office technology management
and measurement. To further ensure that the checklist measures what it ought to, reliability was conducted using Spearman Brown Formula and reliability co-efficient of 0.97 was obtained. Simple percentage was used to analyse the data collected. The findings of the study revealed that 67% of classroom facilities, 64% of e-library facilities, 52% of model office facilities, 67% of seminar room facilities were not available. Based on these findings it was recommended among others that there should be adequate provision of classrooms and its facilities, adequate establishment of e-library facilities.