Improving Mentoring in Higher Education in Undergraduate Education and Exploring Implications for Online Learning

This article is a literature review of mentoring and higher education academic literature from 2008-2018. The review analyzed what makes an effective mentor and what are the implications of practice for those strategies. This article is for higher education leaders, mentoring programs, and mentors w...

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Autores: Andersen, Camey L., West, Richard E.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2020
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Murcia
Repositorio:DIGITUM. Depósito Digital Institucional de la Universidad de Murcia
OAI Identifier:oai:digitum.um.es:10201/96346
Acceso en línea:https://doi.org/10.6018/red.408671
http://hdl.handle.net/10201/96346
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Higher education
Mentor
Online education
Retention
Role model
Training
Tutoría
Educación superior
Entrenamiento de mentores
Roles de mentor
Mentoría en línea
Educación a distancia
Aprender en línea
Programas de mentoría
Retención
Persistencia
CDU::3 - Ciencias sociales::37 - Educación. Enseñanza. Formación. Tiempo libre
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Sumario:This article is a literature review of mentoring and higher education academic literature from 2008-2018. The review analyzed what makes an effective mentor and what are the implications of practice for those strategies. This article is for higher education leaders, mentoring programs, and mentors who want to improve their traditional and online mentoring programs and mentoring practices. After narrowing the search terms, the researcher searched EBSCO and ERIC databases and this search produced a combined total of 256 results. These articles were further narrowed to 34 articles that met the keyword search and exclusion criteria. The remaining articles are the focus of the literature review analysis for mentoring and higher education literature. The review produced three major themes of impact of mentoring, role of mentor, and mentoring programs, as well as implications for practice for each theme. The researcher further examined the themes in detail and provided information about retention, persistence, long-term benefits of mentoring, student interaction, student support, role models, types of mentoring programs, platforms for mentoring, and mentor training. The review concludes with suggestions for further research, including recommendations for mentor training and online mentoring.