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

Abstract

A draft guidance mentoring for UTPL, emerged from the many defections by students, where students came not meet their educational goals, with this background UTPL supported by the graduates of the career of Educational Sciences, who given the role of mentors in the process, implements the project aimed to five students of first cycle which first distance learning experience. This work was done in the Associated Center Duran, was descriptive research using tools such as interviews, observations and questionnaires to obtain valuable information, which could give support and personal follow-up, under a culture accompanying the student. The results were satisfactory since the objective set at the beginning of the program was completed, it was, develop actions of counseling with undergraduate students to facilitate their incorporation into the system remotely and thus reduce the abandonment of their studies, mentees students feel motivated to continue their studies without giving the same