Learned or learnt?

[Danni79]

Don't know where to post this one so I did my best!!

Which of the following is the correct statement and why?

I used the information I learnt in a training course

or

I used the information I learned in a training course

I am confused....!!...thanks x x x

[Quizmonkey]

Neither is incorrect - just that the -ed endings are tending to be favoured more over the -t endings these days, which are considered slightly antiquated.

The one instance where they're not interchangeable though is when you use learned as an adjective: eg. a learned scholar - learnt would be wrong in this case.

[Quizmonster]

In American English, the -ed version is markedly more common in the past forms of verbs such as learn, burn, dwell, kneel, smell etc than the -t version.
In British English, you are likely to find a far more even distribution of the two. However, as Quizmonkey says above, both are 'correct' in your examples.