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In a few weeks, I'll start my annual look back at the year in ed-tech. I still haven't narrowed down the "top trends" to just ten. Nor have I started the process of pouring back through each's week's news round-up that I write. But as it stands, here's my running list (some of which can obviously be consolidated, changed, expanded):

1. The Business of Ed-Tech
2. The Politics of Ed-Tech
3. Privacy, Data, and Algorithms
4. Outsourcing and Privatization
5. Free College?
6. The Collapse of For-Profit Higher Ed (Or Not)
7. Online Education (the Hype formerly Known as “MOOC”)
8. The Common Core State Standards
9. Opt-Out and Testing
10. Competency-Based Education
11. School as Skills Training - “The Employability Narrative”
12. Annotation (and the Indie Web)
13. Free Speech and Social Media