Top 100 Tools for Learning

Slide 1: Top 100 Tools for Learning 2007 Jane Hart Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies Learning Technologies Conference, 30-31 January 2008

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Slide 3: Top 10 Tools for Learning “What are your 10 favourite tools for your personal learning/productivity or for creating learning for others?” (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 3

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Slide 5: Some facts 109 respondents  from 21 countries (US, UK, Canada, etc)  56 from corporate training; 53 from education Over 400 tools mentioned  100 tools mentioned 3 or more times  50 mentioned twice (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 5

Slide 6: Top 10 Tools 2007

Slide 7: Top 3 Tools 1 2 3= (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 7

Slide 8: Top 5-10 Tools 5 PowerPoint 9 6 Word 10 7= (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 8

Slide 9: Personal Learning • Web browsers, extensions, readers and players • Social bookmarking tools • (Re)search tools • Blogging tools • Email tools • Instant messengers • RSS readers • Social networks • Productivity tools • Personal home/start pages Personal Learning Environment (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 9

Slide 10: Google tools (Online and Desktop) (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 10

Slide 11: Free v Commercial Tools • Over 75% of tools are FREE • Free =  Open source  Closed source - freeware  Liteware (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 11

Slide 12: Producer Tools • Documentation tools • Presentation tools • Blogging tools • Podcasting tools • Wiki tools • Mindmapping tools • File hosting/sharing tools • Course authoring (rapid e-learning) tools • Screencasting (rapid e-learning) tools • Course management systems • Web meeting and conferencing tools • Social networking/ community tools • Content management tools (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 12

Slide 13: Popular Free Producer Tools 11 12= 15 26= (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 13

Slide 14: Popular Free file hosting and sharing tools 16 50= 22= 57= 31= (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 14

Slide 15: Popular £ Producer Tools 17= 22= 26= 50= (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 15

Slide 16: Summary • Rankings relatively unimportant – range of tools used for learning purposes impressive • Not all “dedicated” learning tools – flexible, part of daily living and working • What tools people are using and how they are using them = valuable (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 16

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Slide 18: What makes a tool popular? • Good at its job – often just one specific job • Customisable • Flexible • Easy to use • Collaborative – sharable • Free • Loved by its users (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 18

Slide 19: Summary PDF Top 100 Tools 2007 – by popularity - by type of tool - alphabetically (cost, availability, platform) (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 19

Slide 20: Top Tools for Learning 2008 • Old favourites • Some making a strong start  Adobe Connect  Voicethread  Pageflakes  Twitter • Some new tools being mentioned  Jing  Joomla!  Opera  Wetpaint (c) C4LPT, Jan 2008 20

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