Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012

1. The Business of Ed-Tech

2. The Maker Movement

3. Learning to Code

4. The Flipped Classroom

5. MOOCs

6. The Battle to Open Textbooks

7. Education Data and Learning Analytics

8. The Platforming of Education

9. Automation and Artificial Intelligence

10. The Politics of Ed-Tech

(Notably missing from my list: the student (youth) voice; #Occupy; BYOD; gaming; badges and credentials; the globalization of ed-tech; cheating; crowdsourcing and crowdfunding. Make of that what you will.)

Image credits: Hugh Lee

• Ed-Tech's Monsters, September 3, 2014
• Against "Innovation", May 14, 2014
• Beneath the Cobblestones... A Domain of One's Own, April 25, 2014
• Student Data is the New Oil: MOOCs, Metaphor, and Money, October 17, 2013
• A Future With Only 10 Universities, October 15, 2013
• The Myth and Millennialism of "Disruptive Innovation", May 24, 2013
• Click Here to Save Education: Evgeny Morozov and Ed-Tech Solutionism, March 26, 2013
• The Real Reason I Dropped Out of a PhD Program, August 29, 2012
• "The Audrey Test": Or, What Should Every Techie Know About Education?, March 17, 2012
• Apple and the Digital Textbook Counter-Revolution, January 19, 2012
• Codecademy and the Future of (Not) Learning to Code, October 28, 2011
• The Wrath Against Khan: Why Some Educators Are Questioning Khan Academy, July 19, 2011

• "Zombie Ideas"
• The Politics of Education/Technology
• Standards
• MOOCs and Anti-MOOCs
• Coding and "Making"
• Hardware
• Data vs Privacy
• The Battle for "Open"
• What Counts "For Credit"
• The Business of Ed-Tech

• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2012
• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2011
• Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2010

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