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Education at a Distance. Students social survival. Higher Education. Sociobiographical approach.
Facing the contemporary transformations in the technological sources that influence the social context into occurs the learning in the formal teaching, this paper seeks to collaborate in the EaD-Education at a Distance area specially with an investigation about the social survival strategies that the students of the EaD pedagogy formation, in the Natal pole in the UFRN-Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte developed during their formation period. The study made a historical rescue of the institutionalization of EaD educational mode since the worldwide apparition to arrive in the UFRN. In the research it explores the results of the virtual questionnaire applied over ten students of the class using the Google forms tools. The analysis from the descriptive and analytical codification of the students answers in the questionnaire oriented the interpretations field about the personal and pedagogical means of the contends revealed. In addition, those interpretations also be inspired in the owner author experience who was a member of the same generation of the investigated students in a sociobiographical approach based in the near experience and distant experience concept.