eLearning - Flash ?

[Hoof-Hearted]

Planning an eLearning initiative on an intranet and was wondering if anyone had any experience developing this kind of thing.
There's going to be some animation / sound / video and so far Flash seems to be the suggested medium from most vendors.

I haven't come across many developers or courses so am concerned about maintenance and further development to the product. Don't want to be totally dependant on vendors.
Is it easy to use / develop in. Ie are there dev tools available and are they worth much?
Bandwidth considerations?
Envrionment speed?

Obviously the last two are dependant on how much is built into the application but I'd like to get a ballpark idea of whether the fsker is fast or slow

 

[PC Direct]

Only answer is google it

 

[assagai]

intranet will be fine for delivering flash content, important is how you'll pass the data from flash to a CMS, all of which is doable. Are you building the whole thing from the ground up?

 

[Hoof-Hearted]

@ Picard
Yeah tried that... only got a whole lot of vendor sites punting the product. No real reviews or forums. Seems Flash development is some kind of secret society.

Oh well ... I guess I'll check back tomorrow. No posts here would be an answer in itself.

 

[Hoof-Hearted]

intranet will be fine for delivering flash content, important is how you'll pass the data from flash to a CMS, all of which is doable. Are you building the whole thing from the ground up?

Yup building it from scratch. It'll link to a database tracking what lUsers get up to and the content delivered via a couple of regional servers if necessary. Heard Scorm is the way to go with passing flash

 

[dequadin]

Kinda OT and not sure how much you want to align yourself with the evil M$ mother-ship but have you considered Silverlight?

From what I've seen it's both awesome and extremely powerful

 

[Hoof-Hearted]

thanks mate. Never heard of Silverlight. Will check it out.

 

[assagai]

scorm is the way with e-learning, some developers in za have developed some of their own interesting ways of doing this.

 

[Hoof-Hearted]

Thanks for the input all.
Flash looks like it's going to be pretty easy to use (found some stuff on W3Schools site). Adobe tools will do the trick and hardly any programming ability necessary once the basics have been set up.
No wonder there weren't a glut of flash "experts" offering technical advice using vague acronyms and technogreek

 

[fb1]

Have you had a look at moodle. It wont do the flash stuff for you. But you can include scorm modules, and then it will deal with aggregating results, reports etc. I found it quite easy to customise.