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

Abstract

Education in the XXI century represents a more than a necessity, hence a country progresses when there is demand innovation. For developed countries is a priority, Latin America continues to this ideology. In Ecuador the Technical University of Loja pioneer in educational quality, to the great problem of student dropout raises an improvement proposal which aims to develop and evaluate a pilot mentoring project to guide, accompany, advise students of the first cycle enter the distance learning system. The plan was developed in the city of Cuenca, in October 2015 period in February 2016, with the participation of the management team, a tutor five mentee and a mentor. For research was necessary theoretical basis with the use of methods: analytic-synthetic, inductive-deductive, like techniques with their respective instruments. The results reflected the autonomy and student adaptation. The proposal is to continue the mentoring in the following cycles, the mentee group monitoring, training and educational feedback. This mentoring program aims to be a good alternative service to others.