Tools Directory
Directory of Learning & Performance Tools
Over 2,000 tools for learning and working in education and the workplace
Public Learning Sites
A wide range of informational and educational sites for general reference, how-to guides, wikis, how-to videos, podcasts, courses, lessons, tutorials (including open courseware), e-books as well as other reference resources and places to ask questions both online and on your mobile.
Instructional Tools
Tools for creating, delivering, managing and/or tracking learning and/or providing a formal social learning environment.
- Course Authoring Tools
- Testing, Quizzing and Other Interactive Tools
- Course and Learning Management Systems
- SPECIAL PAGE: Tools for the Social Classroom (ages 5-18)
Social and Collaboration Spaces
These platforms include public social networks, tools to create private collaborative spaces for groups or communities
- Public social networks & micro-sharing platforms
- Group, project, team, community and enterprise platforms
Twitter apps
These tools include a range of useful Twitter applications
Web meeting, conferencing and virtual world tools
Tools for delivering live meetings, screen sharing and virtual worlds
Document, Presentation and Spreadsheet Tools
Tools to create, host and share documents, PDFs, e-Books, presentations and spreadsheets
- Document creation & hosting tools
- Presentation creation & hosting tools
- PDF tools
- 3D (page turning) tools
- Spreadsheet tools
Blogging, Web and Wiki Tools
Tools to create blogs, web pages/sites and wikis as well as provide interactivity on those sites
- Blogging tools
- Wiki tools
- Web page/site tools
- Form, polling and survey tools
- RSS feed tools
- Web plugins and accessories
Image, Audio & Video Tools
Tools to create, edit and/or host images, avatars, audio files, podcasts, screencasts and videos
- Image and photo editing
- Screen capture
- Image galleries & photo sharing sites
- Audio/podcast editing
- Audio/podcast streaming
- Audio/podcast hosting
- Video creation & editing
- Screencasting
- Video streaming
- Video hosting
Communication Tools
Tools for a range of synchronous and asynchronous communication activities
- Email tools
- Newsletter tools
- SMS/text tools
- Instant messaging tools
- Live chat tools
- Voice groups
- Discussion forum tools
Other Collaboration & Sharing Tools
These are further tools for collaboration and sharing with others.
- Social bookmarking
- Collaborative research
- Content curation tools and services
- Shareable notes/notebooks
- Shareable/group organizers
- Collaborative corkboards
- Collaborative whiteboards
- Collaborative mindmapping
- Social calendaring tools
- Shareable maps
- Sharing files across computers
Personal Productivity Tools
These tools are for an individual’s personal working, learning and/or productivity purposes.
- Search engines and discovery tools
- Research/Personal study tools
- Read later tools
- Alerts
- Content curation tools and services
- Personal organizers
- Personal notebooks
- Personal mindmapping
- Personal calendaring tools
- Calculators
- Password managers
- Accessibility tools
- Spellcheckers
- Computing utilities
- Misc personal productivity tools
Browsers, Players & Readers
These tools are useful for browsing the web and accessing, viewing and reading web content