Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Cuenca, periodo académico octubre 2015 – febrero 2016

Abstract

This paper analyzes mentorship as a college counseling service, which aims to promote improvements in practices guidance through the development of a culture of support, thus preventing the defection of students entering first University Tecnica Particular de Loja, achieving proper insertion and adaptation to distance learning system. This work was done at the University Center of the city of Cuenca, being the mentor guide five mentees, the research was conducted was qualitative, quantitative, descriptive, exploratory and used the method of participatory action research, in order to solve the problems that every day are presented, using observation techniques, interviews and questionnaires to evaluate, design and participate in mentoring on specific needs, providing solutions to various problems reported by students, while they are equipped tools to be autonomous and self-regulated students. Indeed, the mentor program was a success, the results obtained were positive as the academic progress of students and their decision to continue with his studies at the UTPL was evident. Thus the contextual framework in which mentoring has exercised its design and methodology, making a proposal to give practical activities as resolution to the need for top-level guidance is presented