Abstract
This paper is an analysis of the characteristics of distance education in Uganda in relation to their conformity to the definition of distance education by ADEA. Very little in depth study had been done on ADEAs recommendations and their application in Uganda. This research undertook a case study of eight universities from Western and Eastern Uganda offering distance education programs. They were analysed using ADEA’s characteristics of distance education namely: institutional accreditation, use of a variety of media, provision of two-way communication and, possibility of face-to-face meetings for tutorials. The paper concluded that institutional accreditation played a major role in student selection of university and all eight participating universities conducted face to face sessions. However, there was still a lot of improvement needed in the areas of adoption of technology, the use of a variety of media including computer based learning, video, radio and compact discs. There were also observable gaps in the two way communication between teacher and student.
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