The Use of Online and Digital Technology to Address the Politics of Inequalities and Exclusion in Higher Education at the University of South Africa

This paper addresses the use of information and communication technologies (ICT) in education and what has now commonly become referred to as ‘online education’ to critically evaluate the use of digital technologies in higher education at a South African university to bridge and overcome the gap of student access to and participation in learning. It relates the case of the University of South Africa (UNISA) in open access, distance and online or e-learning (ODeL).