Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación superior a distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado Cuenca 2014-2015

Abstract

The problem that presents itself in today’s education is “The abandonment of university students by incoming students”; which is why the Private Technical University of Loja, is a pioneer in distance education in Ecuador, offering a pilot mentorship project to four students in their first semester of distance, learning with the goal to better, innovate, and promote the integrated orientation toward education with accompaniment by a mentor. The following work investigate the development in the city of Cuenca, Azuay with the human elements of tutor-mentor-mentorship being the latter the fundamental base of the project. The techniques and instruments used (questionnaires, surveys, and interviews) were necessary to obtain relevant information about the students and the option for the distance learning program. The results that were obtained were positive, since we had evidence in the academic progress of the students and their final decision to continue their studies at UTPL. With the information obtained, the investigation done and the positive results obtained the “Manual of the Mentor”, was made Key Words: Orientation, Mentoring, Mentor, Mentee, Mentor Manual.