By Leslie Olsen
In Military Education, Special Contributor

When I was studying for my bachelor’s degree in Canada, the ‘computer’ was a building. In 1990, I married a U.S. Air Force officer and moved to MacDill AFB in Florida. Over the next two decades, I did not keep up with computer technology, word processing skills, and software applications since they were not required in my career or in my personal life. However, twenty years later when I decided to enroll in the online MPA program with American Public University, I could no longer neglect or ignore the technological aspects of an evolving academic environment.