Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Nueva Loja, ciclo académico 2014 -2015

Abstract

This work reflects the action of mentoring as a strategy for educational guidance in novice students of the Technical University of Loja of Distance Learning, which aims to help in their transition to college, prevent dropouts and personal frustrations in their studies, to through support to their autonomy. The study methodology is qualitative, quantitative, explanatory, descriptive and participatory action, help to characterize the needs of orientation and performance of teachers in the teaching-learning process; demonstrates the reality of the students, the first cycle, University Center-Sucumbíos Nueva Loja. The instruments used in field research are questionnaires thinking skills; needs guidance; unsystematic interviews and observations that help characterize the behavior of the students. Responsibility as a mentor is to support the group in the transition and adaptation to university life in education to distance. And in turn, I propose the continuation of mentoring, because it benefits the mentor and mentee to me to develop competencies and skills in personal and professional performance.