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

Abstract

The MaD (Distance Learning) welcomes more and more people, including young people completing high school and choose to study at a distance due to family economic factors, work. But also, this heterogeneity multiple needs of guidance are presented for both adaptation, in academic, personal and administrative aspects, being causal of early abandonment of studies or academic failure. The mentoring project aimed to develop actions of counseling with students of junior MaD to facilitate their incorporation into this system. The program was fulfilled in the CUA Zaruma, ten students participated in various degrees. The methods used were: Participatory Action Research, descriptive, analytical method - synthetic, inductive, deductive and statistical; He resorted to literature research techniques and field; several data collection instruments were used. The main problems were lack mentees in managing EVA (Virtual Learning Environment), limited application of techniques and strategies studies. students who managed to adapt to this form He oriented, successful considering this program