Desarrollo y Evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría para estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación a Distancia, centro universitario de Gualaceo, año lectivo 2015-2016

Abstract

Abstract:This project was intended to promote the processes of academic orientation, integration, adaptation, and support, students of the first cycle of races System Distance Education UTPL to prevent desertion, based on knowledge of their needs and improves the quality of the education system. The investigation was realized in the canton Gualaceo, with the participation of a counselor (tutor), a mentor and five mentees, this investigation was of type qualitative-quantitative, exploratory and descriptive, using methods: research participatory, descriptive action, analytical - synthetic, inductive-deductive, and statistical techniques literature and field research and tools that facilitated establish the academic, information, personnel and adaptation of students participating in the process was used. The results show that the process was a significant mentoring for the mentee students achieve adapt to the form of distance learning and motivated to meet its goal of continuing the career chosen contribution. For this motive I invite the readership the review of this work.