Is it a wise decision to use flash for e-Learning course.

Dear Friends,
Iam working for a company which is developing e-learning courses in Flash with AS3, Learning management system in dot net. There was a discussion with my superior, one guy was telling nowadays flash users reduced, in future flash will be outdated. This is not a wise decision to use flash for e-Learning.
Another issue is we cannot show our courses in ipad or Iphone.. please pass your comments and ideas to me. and suggest me, whether how can i use my swf courses in to ipad or iphone or tablets... Tell me whether iam in a right way.
i need another info, Whether silver light will be an alternate to create elearning courses with interactivity? That guy suggested Silverlight (because he is a dot net guy).
i need ur serious advice and info. Please tell me, list of companies using flash for Elearning development.
Kindly advice me whether i can continue my courses in Flash with AS3 or should i stop and change my work environment.
Regards,
Syed Abdul Rahim

The contents of what you're trying to teach make all the difference.
Are your tests very visual requiring interactivity with visual objects and media or are you just asking questions with various form-esque inputs (text inputs, radio inputs, etc)?
If it's very visual then it's worth considering AIR to some small extent but you'd really need to have a lot of time invested for that.
Ultimately I'd be converting it to HTML5/JS/CSS3. That's the 99.9% positivity rated presumption I'll make. As a general consideration, where Flash may previously have been used to "grade" a paper or tell the user their current answer is correct, this might need to change. You should be sending the users answer to a server to get a response. JavaScript is plain-text and can be read so you'd want to curb cheating by making sure the server contains the answers and not the client. This is an automation you'll lose by abandoning SWF.
I use C#.NET myself and I'd avoid silverlight like the plague. Let's be very clear here. Flash is not going away. They are repositioning themselves to handle more sophisticated endeavors in the future like full 3d games. Flash is auto-installed with the OS, the user base is not getting smaller. Silverlight almost never had a purpose to begin with, besides Microsoft just wanted a sandbox to play in itself. Windows Metro is the only potential obstacle in the future as it has been said to load SWF content externally, like an application, rather than embedded into the browser.

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what to use to get flash for language study?

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Iphone 4s turns off when using flash for photograph

so here is my problem. i have an iPhone 4s 16gb bought back at launch in 2011. since updating to ios6 i have this dumb issue.. whenever i try and click a photo using the stock camera app (with FLASH) the phone (sometimes) just turns itself off and when i try turning it back on, it tells me i need to connect it for charging (regardless of how much juice is remaining).. when i try turning it on after a few minutes it boots up normally with the amount of battery it had prior to the shut down.. i thought that the new software updates might solve this issue but it hasnt at all.. i have searched these forums and it seems im not the only one having this issue.. even upgrading to ios7 did nothing and its still the same.. it was working fine when i had ios5 out of the box.. also when i use flash (in a low light enviorment) the images are completely washed out/ heavily overexposed.. i mean you can only see the 4 corners of the picture.. i have no covers etc on the phone just fyi.. btw this only happenes in the stock ios camera app and not any of the 3rd party apps that i have tried.. also when i use the new quick flashlight it works perfectly without issue till the battery really drians out (just fyi for a perspective).. is there like a fix that im unaware about? or apple doesn't care about 4s people anymore??

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it also did it once when playing music and then someone called me
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it did not happen on 5.0 (but that was when battery was new - 4 months old!)
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while thanking u for the tips which were very useful I want to know if i can create batch files for often repeated activites and put them into action from my desktop ----raj

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> Can anyone help me with flash buttons? I am trying to
build my first
> website,
> and my five flash buttons (inside a 5 col. table) for
page navigation work
> fine
> in testing all 5 web pages with mozilla firefox, and
they look the same on
> the
> index page when testing with IE-7. However when I begin
navigating to
> other
> pages in IE-7, the flash buttons disappear, and the 5
cols in the table
> where
> each flash button was placed now are not equal sizes
anymore like they are
> on
> the index page. In my files area on the right, I notice
3 out of the five
> buttons I created have about 15 to 20 "generations"
shown there, with
> numbers 1
> through 15 or even more to qualify them tacked on to the
end of the names.
> Where do these come from, and why are 2 out of the five
only have 1
> "generation" each? I never expected this, and I think it
has something to
> do
> with the problem, but maybe not. Please help me if you
can!
>

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a LOT (getting older does not help!) and it's gonna take a while to
get back up to speed.
It looks like there is very little going on Director-wise
these days. Even on Adobe's website, you have to click into a
secondary product area to even find it! So I am wondering if maybe
I should forget about using Director and just try to learn Flash?
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Oh, I am mostly displaying video on CD and intranet, creating
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I've been using Flash for about 7 years, Director for over
15. I've built many industrial strength applications in both. My
impression is that the average task can be approached in 50
different ways in Director, all of which will work -- and 50
different ways in Flash, only one of which will work, and you have
to go through all 49 others before you find it.
Flash also, though purportedly a designer's tool, ironically
breaks every rule of user interface design itself.
Examples:
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