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

Abstract

With the project "Development and Evaluation of a pilot mentoring experience with undergraduate students of Higher Distance Education" canton and province of Canar with a view to promote the improvement of the quality of the processes of academic orientation and the emergence of a culture of accompaniment that fosters meaningful learning. The development work was done by applying surveys which enabled to meet their needs, expectations and disadvantages with students and sought alternatives to solve and achieve the maximum development in positive aspects of personal growth, discovery, creativity in developing academic activities; it was determined that these problems are the main causes of failure of the academic expectations of the student group. Finally, a proposed alternative solution is developed aimed at avoiding failure in the first cycles of students distance learning UTPL