Desarrollo y Evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado Santo Domingo, ciclo académico octubre 2014 febrero 2015

Abstract

This paper presents the university mentoring as a strategy orientation. To do this, it starts from an analysis of Theoretical framework where theory and experiments were carried out by others international universities. In the following papers, it makes an implementation of a mentoring with students from the associated center of the “Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja” (UTPL) in Santo Domingo is taken into practice. This process begins with the finding of the diverse needs of orientation that the students manifested, from which it develops and implements a mentoring plan. The design of this research is quantitative, qualitative, using the method of Participatory Action Research, that allows investigating and intervening while seeking to transform the reality experienced by students. The mentees student participation in the program was voluntary; in this case, 60% of participants were continued involvement in the process. In these pages, the reader will find the development of a mentoring practice that has been designed with and for mentees students in order to help them in their adaptation to the new reality of university studies at Distance Mode.