Stephen Downes

Knowledge, Learning, Community

This is the third of a great three-part series (Part 1, Part 2, Part 3) on tools used by software engineers. You can read it as a well-organized list of tool categories, and so understand the landscape a bit better, or for insight into what tools professionals are actually using (and it's really interesting to compare this list with Jane Hart's EdTech list, as there's almost zero crossover). I see the Engineering survey as a pretty good snapshot that lags a little (but not a lot) behind the leading edge; I recognized the vast majority of the tools and have used many of them. Probably nobody is an expert in all of these tools, but if you're hiring an edtech developer you should be looking for expertise in at least one of these in each category.

Today: Total: [Direct link] [Share]


Stephen Downes Stephen Downes, Casselman, Canada
stephen@downes.ca

Copyright 2025
Last Updated: Oct 14, 2025 2:53 p.m.

Canadian Flag Creative Commons License.