Thank you to those who produce free readily available software.

Agin, it seems terribly odd, to me, that so many repondants chose email clients as learning tools. I know, I know, it’s down to personal perspective.

But since it’s my nature to always question the validity polls and surveys, and most especially the conclusions drawn from them, I find it hard to see much useful about this one. Some sort of preamble to the question would, IMHO, have presented a more useful result.

Don’t get me wrong, I know it’s hard to ask the right questions in a survey to get unfiltered results that are meaningful. The wrong preamble also harms the results.

Ask someone a series of questions about the war in Iraq, then ask them if the budget for it should be increased.

Now, instead, ask them a series of questions about inner-city poverty, and poor school conditions, *then ask if they think the budget for the war in Iraq should be increased. You can be sure the answers will be skewed in both cases.

But my point here is that the responses in this survey are so unfiltered as to be nonsensical **from my ignorant perspective**. Others, no doubt, will disagree. But then that’s what opinions are for

Jane’s site lists the names of respondents. Many are well-known learning professionals.

IE has the most users, but Firefox is the browser of choice for the sophisticated end of the market.

The point is that the tools are useful for individual learning, not the traditional course-based learning.

Just exactly what questions were asked to generate this list? And who was asked? Simply from the weird skew of IE vs Firefox, and the strange list of ‘tools’ for ‘learning’ I have to question the validity of the entire list. Too many of the tools listed make no sense to my humble and ignorant perspective.