RECASTING 'WIKINOMICS' IN EDUCATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS - CASE STUDIES IN THE WIKINOMICS PROJECT

摘要

In the Wikinomics project we revisited the term wikinomics, essentially, described a new world of web-based economics where cultural values such as participation, collectivism and creativity are its foundation, in order to tackle one of its main criticisms: wikinomics functioning as an ideology and practice to deliver unpaid surplus value, a subtle form of exploitation of unpaid labour. The Wikinomics project recognizes the contradictions and tensions described above. It acknowledges the field of technical education as the cornerstone and the primary testbed of its efforts. It aims that the trainee reuses its outcomes and has an opportunity to develop expertise in a particular group of techniques, while integrating free culture and wiki-based methodologies to achieve autonomy and collaboration both of the trainer and the trainee.