Distance education: perception of students of an institution devoid of the northeastern backwoods

This article aims to analyze the perception of students regarding the teaching in the modality of distance education (EaD), describing the changes of paradigm student/teacher/tutor, discussing whether this new methodology enables more empowering to the student in the exchange of knowledge with the facilitator, presented the challenges faced in interpersonal relationship, student/tutor in the teaching and learning process. This research is a descriptive, exploratory, approach a case study in a private institution of higher education in the interior of the northeast of Brazil. With the use of an instrument for data collection, a semi-structured questionnaire, quali-quantitative, where students will present the perception about the modality of distance education that coexist in your course. The results showed that the perception of students, they have difficulty coma EaD modality in terms of trade between tutors and other students, opting for preference to traditional teaching by adding more in the learning process. They also pointed out as an obstacle to the learning process the lack of the mastery of technology to handle the platform.