Include the Excluded via the Lens of the Open Distance E-Learning Programme

Abstract

This chapter revealed the on-going challenges faced by marginalized individuals at achieving education. Concerned about the state exclusion faced are individuals or communities systematically marginalised from formal education systems, the chapter noted the impact of governmental agencies at ensuring education for all learners, but also points out that potential deficiencies in the existing praxis in open and distance e-learning (ODeL). In view of the forestated, this intellectual piece leveraged on the principles of the constructivism theory to strategically present how ODeL can be used to bridge educational gaps faced by marginalized groups in the 21st century.