Jane Hart’s Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies website always has useful and interesting info on trends, technology and tools. She recently compiled this year’s Top 100 Tools for Learning 2012 (6th annual survey), as voted for by 582 learning professionals worldwide. “A learning tool is a tool to create or deliver learning content/solutions for others, or a tool for your own personal or professional learning”.
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools-2012/ The Slideshare presentation has good descriptions of each tool.
The top 3 are the same as last year. Here are the top 15:
1. Twitter 2. YouTube 3. Google Docs/Drive 4. Google Search 5. WordPress 6. Dropbox 7. Skype 8. PowerPoint 9. Facebook 10. Wikipedia 11. Moodle 12. Evernote 13. Slideshare 14. Prezi 15. Blogger/Blogspot
Best of breed tools 2012 (tools by category eg. content curation, ed. tools, note taking tools)
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools/best-of-breed-tools-2012/
Directory of learning and performance tools (over 2000 tools in categories)
http://c4lpt.co.uk/directory-of-learning-performance-tools/
Short analysis 2012
http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/blog/2012/10/01/the-top-100-tools-for-learning-2012-list-is-revealed/
Winners and losers 2012
http://c4lpt.co.uk/top-100-tools/winners-and-losers-2012/