Jane Hart has published her annual survey for the Top 100 Learning Tools for 2022 and it’s interesting. Here’s the detailed analysis.

I like looking through these lists because it gives a good snapshot of what people are using out there and what’s trending or falling by the wayside.

What struck me is that Twitter is now out of the top 10! Wow! (For many years, I had Twitter as the best personal learning tool). As I read on, Jane said, “In fact, a good point was made that “the glory days of Twitter” have now passed, and whilst some still continue to benefit from the interactions there, others have become rather exasperated with it for a number of different reasons, and in one case, Helen Blunden, has actually permanently deleted her Twitter account.”

Thanks for the mention Jane!

(For the record, I’m NOT going back to Twitter. That horse has bolted).

I was also interested to see that video continues to be the main platform for learning and also a reduction in Google products.

Maybe people are realising the importance of privacy and data security in these tools I wonder?

I had to chuckle with SharePoint. Poor SharePoint gets a bad rap with everyone. Thing is, you cannot escape SharePoint. It’s everywhere. It’s the engine that drives a lot of the corporate Microsoft products. Just because you don’t ‘see it’ doesn’t necessarily mean you’re not using it. You are.

Yammer?

Poor Yammer, that’s gone but I’m going to hazard to guess that if companies don’t stuff up their employee experience platforms, or give it lip service, then this will return in the guise of Viva Engage.

However as Viva is nowhere on this list (Microsoft’s Viva Platform incorporates Viva Learning, Viva Topics, Viva Connections, Viva Insights and Viva Engage) it just goes to show that Viva is still relatively new to many companies and maybe there’s an issue with the licensing.

Let’s see what 2023 shows but on the whole, it looks like this year, people are sticking with their tried and tested tools.

Here’s my Top Learning Tools (I must have been the only one to mention Yammer because I still think it plays a part in my learning BUT I see that organisations and its people don’t value it – or don’t realise it’s value which is the reason why at times I lament about community and peer learning in organisations) .

1. Feedly
2. WordPress
3. YouTube
4. Telegram (connect with all my Twitter network through DMs now)
5. Email (subscribe to newsletters)
6. Yammer
7. Microsoft Teams
8. Custom PowerApp Portal (this one is specifically built by our company for our employees to keep abreast of M365 announcements and changes and I use it daily to learn)
9. Curators (human kind)
10. The Indiewebb

Top Tools for Learning 2022