Morgado, LinaAfonso, Ana PaulaFerret, Nathalie2022-05-092022-05-092019Morgado, L., Afonso, A. P., Ferret, N. (2019). e-Mentoring: Challenges in the Development of a Model, ICERI2019-12th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation, pp. 6487-6493. IATED, DOI: 10.21125/iceri.2019.1558978-84-09-14755-7http://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/11926Este trabalho integra-se no Projeto e-Mentoria em EAD, GT Transferência de Conhecimento e Inovação parceria entre o DEED e o LE@D.Initial and continuous support, such as mentoring (among peers), has been a strategy widely adopted by different distance higher education institutions, namely in the European context, in order to support new students in their academic integration, reduce isolation, facilitate collaboration and create a sense of belonging to a community; thus, this support is provided by students at more advanced levels of training. Not being a new practice, it has evolved over time, inspiring various interpretations of its action and implementation. Assuming to be a crucial factor for student success in the context of distance education institutions, this subsystem of student support emerges as a central aspect in social and cognitive presence (Garrison & Anderson, 2003) and in the creation of knowledge and ties in and on the community. It is in this sense that this presentation, based in a pilot e-mentoring project implemented in a department of an european Open University, framed in the paradigm of Virtual Learning Communities and within the framework of the Model of the Community of Inquiry (CoI), aims to present a set of assumptions for the construction of an e-mentoring model adapted to this teaching-learning modality and adapted to the students profile.enge-MentoringDistance educatione-Mentoring modelCommunity of Inquiry (CoI)conference object10.21125/iceri.2019.1558