I first discovered distance education in while my wife andI were living in the eastern African country of Uganda. Afterseveral years away from school, I had decided that it was timeto go back and work on a graduate degree. At first, I thought mytiming couldn’t be worse. My wife’s contract with her employerwouldn’t allow us to just easily pick up and leave, and Icouldn’t see universities in the state accepting transfercredits from a Ugandan university. During a trip home, I startedcrawling around on the Internet to see which universities hadthe degree program I wanted. It was while doing this that Istumbled across an online course that sound of interest throughthe University of Colorado.Living in Uganda in provided it’s own unique challenges toonline learning. In-home Internet access was nonexistent. Thefirst Internet caf in the country didn’t start up until and in there wasn’t even a hint that one might be starting.When it did come it was kilomet…