Here is a list of all the articles I wrote as part of my look at the “Top Ed-Tech Trends” of the year. 
“Trends” is perhaps the wrong word here. These are my observations about what’s happened in education technology (and education more broadly) over the course of the past 12 months. This project – something I’ve done every year since 2010 – aims to serve as an in-depth analysis of the noteworthy events and products and politics and financing and tries to piece together the narratives and ideologies that drive ed-tech.
- Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking
- The Politics of Education Technology
- The Business of Education Technology
- Education Technology and the Promise of “Free” and “Open”
- Education Technology and the “New” For-Profit Higher Education
- Education Technology and the “New Economy”
- Education Technology and the History of the Future of Credentialing
- Education Technology and Data Insecurity
- Education Technology and the Ideology of Personalization
- Education Technology’s Inequalities
This year, I also published a number of supplemental articles detailing the funding for each of these “trends”: 
- How Much Venture Capital Did Ed-Tech Raise in 2016?
- Who Were 2016’s Most Active Ed-Tech Investors?
- Who’s Funding Tutoring Startups?
- Who’s Funding Test Prep Startups?
- Who’s Funding Ed-Tech in Africa?
- Who’s Funding Predictive Analytics in Education?
- Who’s Funding ‘Personalized Learning’ Startups?
- Who’s Funding ‘Character Education’ Startups?
- Who’s Funding Testing and Test Monitoring Startups?
- Who’s Funding Startups that ‘Monitor’ Schools and Students?
- Who’s Funding the Blockchain in Education?
- Who’s Funding ‘Credentialing’ Startups?
- Who’s Funding Corporate Training Startups?
- Who’s Funding Job Placement Startups?
- Who’s Funding Learn-to-Code Startups?
- Who’s Funding Student Loan Startups?
- Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016?
- Who’s Funding Virtual Reality Startups?
- Mark Zuckerberg’s Education Investment Portfolio
- The Emerson Collective’s Education Investment Portfolio
- Who Received Gates Foundation Grants in 2016?
- Education Companies and the Stock Market
- Public Funding for Education in 2016
- The 2016 Ed-Tech Dead Pool
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