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

Abstract

The Technical University of Loja in its effort to improve the quality of higher education, has implemented a pilot mentoring plan to reduce high levels of attrition in distance education. This research was conducted at the University Center of the city of Machala with the participation of the Management Team Mentoring UTPL the last cycle student as a mentor and the group of undergraduate students of various specialties (mentees). The objective of this project is the adaptation and integration of the mentee to distance learning mode. In this project the method of Participatory Action, with which helped identify the needs of orientation of each student, technical literature and field research was used in addition to the instruments provided by the university for different activities was applied. The overall objective of this program is that mentoring is evident that the support and assistance are essential foundation for students to adapt to the studio system and significantly improve both their learning level.