Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de educación superior a distancia, de la Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja, Centro Universitario Asociado de Turubamba-Quito, durante el ciclo académico Octubre 2014-Febrero 2015

Abstract

In the distance education system it has detected that one of the problems faced is the high dropout rate in the first levels. This mainly due to the lack of guidance, adaptation and study habits of students in this education system. Aware of this issue the Technical Particular University of Loja, provides a mentoring program which aims to implement, develop and evaluate a pilot mentoring project for undergraduates distance mode. This mentoring program was held at the associated center in Quito-Turubamba with five undergraduate students using research methods such as: participative, descriptive, analytical, inductive- deductive and statistical; and library research techniques, observation, interviews, surveys and focus groups; and instruments that allowed information collecting, thus providing the necessary tools so they can be autonomous and critical thinking students. At the end of the process it was determined that 100% of students mentees required support and guidance in academic, administrative and personal aspects; needs that were covered by the mentoring process