The “Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies” has complied a list of 100 tools that learning professionals use for their “own personal learning/productivity and/or for creating learning for others.” One hundred and fifty-five professionals shared their top ten tools from which this list is compiled. Many of them are tools you may use every day like Firefox or Google. Some may be new to you and worth checking out. Many are free!

Clicking on the application name in the list will open a handy little page that lists comments from the people who selected the tool and may give you ideas about how you might use them. The “Analysis” page makes an interesting comparison between the tools used for workplace learning and those used for formal education and reaches the conclusion that “formal, traditional (Learning 1.0) approaches (i.e. content-based courses, tutorials, etc) are still dominant in the workplace, whilst educators are embracing a much wider range of Web 2.0 tools to create more social, collaborative and informal approaches to learning.“

Maybe for once the schools are ahead of Industry?