Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario de Quito, año lectivo 2014 – 2015

Abstract

Mentoring is established as one of the most innovative tools in the field of education, because through its use can transform the role and relationship between teacher and student, facilitating the communication and application of methodological strategies positively affect the process of teaching - learning. Therefore, this study "Development and evaluation of a pilot mentoring experience with undergraduate students of Higher Distance Education in the University Center of Quito, school year 2014 - 2015" allowed to establish the educational needs that have this group - synthetic, inductive - deductive and statistical and survey, interview and participant observation, descriptive, analytical action: students, for which research methods were used. These research techniques applied to eight students, allowed to collect important information was taken into account in the preparation of a manual Mentor, where actions and strategies to strengthen the mentoring process in educational institution are established, and decrease the level of dropouts.