Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación a Distancia, Centro Universitario de San Rafael- Quito, período octubre 2015 – febrero 2016

Abstract

This pilot mentoring project tries to implement, develop and evaluate a mentoring experience four undergraduate students of the UTPL of distance learning, the University Center of San Rafael-Quito. It was found that the four respondents, having no experience in this kind of mode of college, admitted full of expectations and fears so they give them forms of disorientation and lack of motivation. All university mentoring program contains general guidelines, so it was necessary to make a diagnosis of the situation to begin with. To this are added other aspects: who can project into the future, is consistent with the culture of the place to be implemented and solvent several needs, the same that were detected by theoretical research and field surveys and interviews to know the fears, expectations and needs. These findings resulted that need mentorship implemented a project that will solve the problems of orientation, learning strategies and information; avoiding thus desertion, lack of motivation and insufficient notes.