Distance learning as a tool of prevention of social exclusion – view from agenda
setting theory. Among various factors influencing the process of public agenda
setting one can place also the results of increasing number and quality of open
educational resources. Self-education with the use of distance-learning facilities
plays increasing role in framing the reception of main issues present in the public
sphere via media and public institutions. One of side-effects of broader implementation
of distance learning in modern countries is the impact that it has on the
reduction of negative effects of social exclusion. The paper will present the mechanisms
of this phenomenon and will place it within the second level of agenda-
-setting theory.