Desarrollo y evaluación de una experiencia piloto de mentoria con estudiantes de primer ciclo de educación superior a distancia, centro universitario asociado de salinas

Abstract

The mentoring peer encourages individual growth and the collective future. It is witness to University life, is the transfer of the knowledge acquired by the mentor, the Telemachus to help to facilitate the academic adaptation to distance. A sample of 10 students of the UTPL mode open and distance, in the evaluation of the first meeting of mentoring applied to the mentorados, with ethics and responsibility, through a proactive critical analysis of the reality of the student, left clearly evidenced needs of orientation of different kinds, making apparent the individual differences. These distinct needs allow point support, search strategies that favor the relationship mentor - student, help adapt to the system of distance education, the due administrative use, help to the proper handling of the didactic material, practice techniques of significant learning that allow academic achievement, strengthening of intrinsic and extrinsic motivations of according to the vocation and the chosen race , primary interventions etc. (La UTPL and its graduates contribute to the development of the project of mentoring that will always be perfectible). The investigation is obtained as a conclusion that first cycle of distance education students are in need of guidance in all fields