Transactional distance
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Transactional distance is the cognitive space between learning peers, teachers and content in a distance education setting. Coined by Michael G. Moore in 1980, transactional distance is a function of dialog and structure in distributed adult learning settings. Distance decreases with dialog and increases with structure so that a classroom with high interaction and less rigid format will be more engaging to learners.
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- Transactional Distance defined in Cyber Slang Online Encyclopedia
- The American Journal of Distance Education
The transaction that we call distance education occurs between teachers and learners in an environment having the special characteristic of separation of teachers from learners.
It is a distance of understandings and perceptions that might lead to a communication gap or a psychological space of potential misunderstandings between people
