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Anonymous
May 12, 2009
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General question about Flash and eLearning

  • May 12, 2009
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I'm a Flash Actionscript 3 developer stuck at an advertising agency. I hate advertising and want to get into eLearning (I was at an eLearning company for 1.5 years, but they went out of business)

Do people use Flash for eLearing? If so, where are these jobs posted?

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Inspiring
May 28, 2009

If you are on LinkedIn you can join some of the E-learning groups there. They often have job postings etc.

Another option would be to start off by making some AS3 Widgets / stock components to be used in E-learning and/or Captivate project and sell these via the Adobe Exchange or another online market place.

I know several Flash programmers that make their living from selling stock flash components on sites like www.flashden.net and similar.

/Michael

Click here to visit the www.captivate4.com blog.

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Anonymous
May 13, 2009

Thank you

John_Meidl
John_Meidl
Inspiring
May 27, 2009

Michael,

Knowledge and experience with Flash Actionscript is a VALUABLE skill to have! You would be able to supplement an instructional design team with that that unique expertise, which, I suspect, only a small percentage of us instructional designers have. As a previous responder suggested, search the various online job databases, using terms such as:

- instructional design

- curriculum development

- elearning

- online course development

I suspect a larger company that has division of labor, i.e., instructional designers, developers, editors, etc., would be looking for someone with Actionscript skills. I wish you good success! Some company needs your skills; keep doing your job research.

Jan

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Anonymous
May 13, 2009

Damn, I guess not.

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Anonymous
May 13, 2009

Hi there,

People do indeed use Adobe Flash or eLearning, in fact the Adobe eLearning Suite includes a whole series of eLearning interactions for Adobe Flash. Where jobs are posted in another matter, though if you do a search on monster.com for Instructional Design you will see that many of the vacancies expect you to have Flash skills.

You can learn more about the Adobe eLearning Suite from the link I have included below

<a href="ttps://admin.adobe.acrobat.com/_a295153/introducingels/">Introducing the Adobe eLearning Suite</a>

Best - Mark

<a href="http://macrofireball.blogspot.com/"><strong>Visit the macrofireball blog</strong></a>
Captiv8r
Captiv8r
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May 13, 2009

Hi there

I think Mark may have meant to link to the page below. The link seems to just reload the page.

Click here to view

Cheers... Rick

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