Sistema de mentoría para los nuevos estudiantes de primer ciclo, Modalidad Abierta y a Distancia de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, centro universitario Machala: Evaluación de una experiencia, ciclo académico diciembre 2014 – julio 2015

Abstract

This paper refers to a mentoring pilot plan between pairs for students in the first cycle of the Open and Distance Modality from the UTPL associated center in Machala. This aims the following, motivate the improving of quality in the academic orientation processes, and the rising of an accompanying culture, favoring the autonomous learning, and reduce the failure and dropping out. For this they participate: a teacher as a tutor, a student in the ending phase of the career as a mentor, and four students in the first cycle as mentees. Using methods of participative action, descriptive, analytical and statistical, also bibliographic research and field techniques, and instruments as questionnaires of needs, expectations and fears, thinking skill tests and evaluations of the processes. This mentoring plan has allowed to detect and answer to the several needs that the students face like the lack of strategies and study habits, lack of information from EVA, lack of adaptation to this modality.