Top 100 Tools 2024 : By Category by Jane Hart

Jane Hart has conducted an annual poll on the Top 100 Tools for Learning. The results of the 18th survey were published on 2 September 2024.

The Top 10 tools overall are:

• YouTube
• ChatGPT
• Google Search
• Powerpoint
• Zoom
• Miscrosoft teams
• Word
• LinkedIn
• Canva
• Wikipedia

In Jane’s analysis she states that

“Although LinkedIn is in a strong position in 8th place it is down a couple of places this year, and in fact all the other social networks on the list have lost some ground – Instagram (down 6 places) TikTok (down 19 places) Facebook (down 27 places) and X (formerly Twitter) (down 44 places).”

The report categorises the results into 4 key areas: (1) Personal Learning & Productivity (2) Content & Courses (3) Communication & Collaboration and (4) Content Creation & Management.  These are listed below and I have highlighted social media tools and the examples of tools placed in this Top 100 Tools.

Four main areas used to categorise the tools

Personal learning and productivity

• browsers
• search engines
• AI search engines
• reference
• translators
• productivity

Content and courses

• video and film
• audio and podcasts
• e-books and summaries
• courses

Communication and collaboration

• email
• messaging
• video meetings
• live engagement
• groupware
• collaborative whiteboards
• social networks

Content creation and management

• documents, presentations and spreadsheets
• video and interactive video
• graphic design
• screencasts
• forms and quizzes
• blogs and websites
• courses
• document storage