ICTE and new professional degree programs in higher education: anthropological approaches

This paper is related to two empirical research projects: one was an investigation of users of a University Service of Distance Learning; the second was an ethnographic research which was aimed at identifying the pedagogical models underpinning new professional degree courses (2004-2006). In Education and Training, the relationship which users of ICTE have with such technologies can be studied in part as a relationship to specific knowledge which, when put into other contexts, opens up other, much wider, theoretical questions at three differing levels: a generalized view of ICTE; the cultural experience of ICTE; and the systematization of ICTE. To each level, we have attributed three core concepts: ´gathering´ butinage, ´poaching´-braconnage, and ´odd jobbing´ -bricolage. In the generalized view of ICTE, ´gathering´ relates dialectically to notions of navigation. Within the cultural experience of ICTE, ´poaching´ relates dialectically to notions of programming, and in the systematizing of ICTE, ´odd-jobbing´ relates dialectically to notions of systems development.