The contribution of technology facilitated learning in the development of actuarial competencies in tourism business management education: an empirical investigation

We report the outcome of a quasilongitudinal investigation into the effects on students' performance of integrating technology facilitated learning (TFL) using MS Excel into the business statistics syllabus of a tourism management programme. By varying the magnitude of TFL applied in the syllabus of the subject across four consecutive cohorts, the impact on the students' performance was cross compared. The outcome of this investigation suggests that TFL contributes constructively towards enhancing the students' performance. The inferences were found to be consistent with a host of theoretical considerations in published literature.