Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia, Centro Universitario Asociado de la ciudad de Cuenca, período octubre 2015 febrero 2016

Abstract

Abstract:Education in the twenty-first century is a requirement more than a necessity, hence a country advances when there is innovation. For developed countries it is a priority that Latin America follows the same ideology. In Ecuador the Technical University of Loja as a pioneer of educational quality has detected a latent problematic as is the dropout and raises an improvement proposal that aims to develop and evaluate a pilot mentoring project to orientate, accompany, advise to undergraduate students entering the education system under the distance mode. The plan developed in the city of Cuenca, in October 2015 and in February 2016, with the participation of the manager, a mentor, five mentees and a mentor team. It was necessary to research a theoretical base using methods: analytic synthetic, inductive -deductive, as of techniques with their respective instruments. The results reflected the autonomy and student adaptation. The proposal is to continue the mentoring in following cycles, monitoring the mentee group, training and educational feedback. This mentoring program aims to be a good alternative service to others.