25 Tools every Learning Professional should have in their Toolbox - and all for FREE!

By Jane Hart, Head of Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
to appear in e.learning age magazine, April 2008

Whether you are a corporate trainer, a Learning & Development manager, a learning designer or developer, or an educator in a school, college or university, these are the 25 must-have tools. What is more they are all free, which makes them very useful for those on a low (or non-existent) budget or simply for experimentation and exploration of the widening e-learning space.

These tools have been taken from the Top 100 Tools for Learning 2008 list compiled from the Top 10 Tools lists of over 100 learning professionals worldwide and are a mix of personal productivity tools (for managing personal learning) as well as authoring tools (for creating learning solutions). Many of them are Web 2.0 tools that promote a social, collaborative, sharing approach to learning.

Source: http://www.c4lpt.co.uk/articles/25tools.html