In addition to skiing, Mitchell and his group engaged in other active diversions. Arthur Mitchell in Queenstown at a Maori folk show. Living, Learning in Ecuador Ecuador needs better educated citizens to fuel its developing economy. One way to educate more people is to offer classes where they live, such as by correspondence, instead of requiring them to travel to a university campus. Though Ecuadorian higher education hasn't historically embraced off-campus learning, Dr. Susan Lucarelli Dimmick found growing enthusiasm for it when she went to Ecuador to survey universities.
Tuition is high, and most classes are offered only on campus.
But, she says, a growing number of private universities are offering off-campus, or distance education, programs. People in the mountainous hinterlands who need to update their education, such as teachers or those who want to get better jobs, can't leave their work and families to go to college. Unless they can have affordable higher education close to home, Dimmick says, Ecuador's economic development will continue to suffer. The country has too many doctors, lawyers, and architects. That's what people who can afford to go to college train to be.