Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentorización de estudiantes de primer ciclo de Educación Superior a Distancia. Estudio realizado en el Centro Universitario, Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, período octubre 2015 - febrero 2016

Abstract

Given the high rate of student dropouts presenting at the Technical University of Loja during the first cycles of study, this work is done with the purpose to implement, run and evaluate a pilot mentoring experience to guide students aspiring to enter the distance education system, helping to overcome some problematic factors affecting professional development under the distance mode. The project mentoring runs in the University Center Santo Domingo de los Tsáchilas, in which the counselor, mentor and mentee participated, research is qualitative-quantitative, exploratory and descriptive, the methods used were participatory action, descriptive , synthetic, inductive, deductive and statistical analytic. While literature research techniques and field were used, as well as some research tools provided by the University. This work was very interesting and relevant to all players in the mentoring since managed to meet the needs of student orientation.