Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia

Abstract

Nowadays it is essential a serious college education because it has a substantial impact on later life. This has meant that people who are working in the field of labor relations make the decision to attend distance-learning universities, since it is a perfect choice that allows students to continue working full-time while pursuing a degree. In this context, the Mentoring Program for first semester students offers to assist the new students with continuous and ongoing support in order to provide a complete and comprehensive education. This will allow the students to have a better perception of the environment and themselves as well as ensure adequate decision making for their future professional life. In the course of this process of the Mentoring Program made it by the University center of Quito, UTPL with first semester students of distance-learning of the academic period October 2014 to February 2015 with 4 students that were apply to take different kind of surveys to know their necessities, afterwards working on their self-esteem, organizations and study planning , the use of virtual libraries, guides, bibliography, also working on services and benefits information offered by the University, to be able to help the new students to make them self-sufficient with conviction.