Table 1 Wikipedia and Google: Two Paradigms in Knowledge Economy
Platform | Wikipedia | |
|---|---|---|
Type of organization | Foundation | Corporation |
Non Profit | For profit | |
Education program | -Wikimedia Foundation Education Program -Education Collaborative A group of education leaders around the world who volunteer to mentor education initiatives | -Google for Education Official Google program for educators and educative institutions |
Certification | No formal certification process | Official certification through payment, with predefined levels and processes by the company |
Community | Communities in different spaces (Wikimania, Collaborative Education, Education Program) and other places on the network | Learning communities within their own environment (like Google +) |
Privacy | Commitment with personal data privacy | No real commitment with personal data privacy. |
Principles | -Open Knowledge -Free software -Free culture (Creative Commons Licensing or public domain) -Remix Culture -Wiki -Collective Knowledge Production | -Service “free of charge”, but associated to personal data industry. -Free software, but their algorithm’s code, Page Rank, is not open. -It’s a business associated to the obtaining of new clients for their platforms. -Hierarchical organization and control of knowledge. |
Pedagogic values | Associated with the universal access to open knowledge and the collective production in the different projects of the Wikimedia Foundation (Wikimedia Commons, Wikipedia, Wikibooks, Wikiversity, etc.) | Associated to the use and appropriation of different platforms form the Google ecosystem (Gmail, Youtube, Calendar, Drive, Hangouts, Google+, Blogger). |
Competences | -Collaborative production -Sharing -Community building -Basic (reading-writing), intercultural and digital competences. | -Collaborative production -Sharing -Building communities -Digital competences associated to their platforms |
Prestige | -The more you edit the bigger the recognition one receives from the community -Program of volunteer mentors (education leaders) to promote the use of Wikipedia among students and educators. | -The one who is certified is recognized, the one who isn’t is institutionally and/or socially chastised. |