Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia de mentoría para estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación a Distancia, Centro Universitario de Quito, Tumbaco 2014-2015.

Abstract

The Technical University of Loja has been the need to implement, develop and evaluate a pilot project on mentoring for students in first level of distance learning in order to promote the improvement in the processes of academic orientation and the emergence of a accompanying peer culture that encourages meaningful learning in such under delegated students of last cycle of Education Sciences be the managers of the development of the project. In implementing this project the target population were 7 undergraduate students of all careers and students of last cycle of Education Sciences, at the end of the research just two students work in there, the place where the research took place was in the city of Quito in the partner school Tumbaco. The research design used in this study was qualitative - quantitative, exploratory and descriptive research method used was participatory action research method. Bibliographical techniques and field research was used, and the instruments used were: face meetings, questionnaires, surveys, telephone calls. The end result showed that this research shows that students do not made a commitment to participate in this project and also unveiled the difficulties in handling the virtual platform of the university and the lack of study habits and schedules.