: Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario de Quito.” Período lectivo 2014-2015

Abstract

Knowing the noble and delicate mission, which has the Distance Education University, the Technical University of Loja, proposed a research project for seniors, in order to implement, develop and evaluate a pilot orientation and mentoring plan with Students of the first cycle of the distance mode. The guidance and mentoring plan was carried out in a reasonable time, under the guidance of the University team manager, starting with seven mentees and culminating with four of them, inductive, deductive and statistical methods interviews was used dialogue and regular meetings. Throughout the support and after analyzing and discussing the results, it is detected in students, guidance needs and internal and external difficulties they have, which is why this research paper to finish the proposal of the mentor handbook launched, so that there is a real commitment to provide support to students in distance learning to achieve academic overcome barriers and further reduce the student dropout rate.