Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de Santo Domingo, ciclo académico octubre 2014 – febrero 2015.

Abstract

This research, arises because of the need to analyze and optimize educational guidance at university level students beginning this process; whose overall objective is to implement, develop and evaluate a pilot mentoring project for students of the first cycle of Distance Learning in the perspective of promoting the improvement of the quality of the processes of academic orientation and the emergence of a culture of support, which conducive to meaningful learning. For the execution of this work these methods were used: participatory research, descriptive statistics, analytic-synthetic, inductive and deductive action; plus techniques: lectures, summaries, graphic organizers, observation, interviews, surveys and focus groups. Accordingly, we conclude that this project was proposed as a pilot mentoring experience in order to discover the weaknesses and strengths, which will be overcome and empowered to implement future permanently, considering that was carried out successfully, provided there predisposition mentees students. This paper contains information that will assist in the implementation of a mentoring project. Keywords: Mentoring, guidance, mentee, accompaniment.