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

Abstract

One of the problems that are most students entering Mode Distance Learning is adapting to a different environment: new ways of learning, virtual classroom, combine educational activities with other family, social, job; to this the complexity of some subjects are added. The research aimed to develop actions of counseling with students of junior MaD to facilitate their incorporation into this system of study, improve academic achievement and reduce the rate of early abandonment. Mentoring was applied in the CUA Balsas, we worked ten undergraduate students of various specialties. The following methods were used: Participatory Action Research, descriptive, analytical method - synthetic, inductive, deductive and statistical; also the techniques of literature and field research was used. It is concluded that the mentoring program was a success, because all doubts were cleared mentees, being positive the implementation of the program. This report shows the educational reality in the MaD UTPL