Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoría con estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia

Abstract

The Technical University of Loja in pursuit of improving the high rate of student dropout in the first cycle of the UTPL, Open and Distance Modality, this paper presents the Mentoring Pilot Project for undergraduate students of different races UTPL, with a view to improving the quality of the processes of academic, personal counseling, and information and the different aspects involved in distance education. The main objective was to alumni under the supervision of tutors, will guide students to motivate and prevent early abandonment of their studies. Taking stock of the results obtained. The study was conducted at the partner of New York, he attended five mentees, mentor, director and management team. The research is qualitative and quantitative type, the methodologies used are participatory action research, analytical, inductive, deductive and statistics. Library research techniques and field. Favorable results, detecting the needs of nursing students; by tracking helping to clear most of these needs.