The distance in the process of teaching-learning - discussing the metric

Whereas the distances in relations student-teacher, pupil-pupil and student-content present in an educational process going beyond the variables space-time, in this work we discuss which are the factors that may influence the distance sensation of students in relation to the process of learning which are submitted. By comparing the evaluation of the results obtained by the Potential Proximity Transactional (PPT) metric with the critical assessment made by the students of a course offered by distance, on a set of activities undertaken through the forums of LMS Col and Tidia-Ae, it was possible to isolate some relevant variables for analyze the distance felt by the participants in this course. This work comes to assist the construction of distance education indicators, raising the reevaluate existed metrics, and the creation of new indicators.