Howard, it’s more than just storing the classes in the cloud, but smaller course chunks and using semantics and intelligence (see mass customization) to be more flexible & opportunistic about delivering them. Which may have been what you meant… The notion is more light layers on top of your experience instead of heavy chunks away from your experience.

I agree with your “learning in the flow” ideas, and think e-technologies are perfect for such utilization. I see a large under-utilization of the spacing effect (probably because most of us still don’t really know learning that well) even though it is one of the most thoroughly documented findings in the learning research, so I doubt most developers are ready to develop such supports, but there may be some movement in the performance support area.

One thing that I want to emphasize is that we may not need a technology-enable solution. If we only got our learners’ managers to understand (1) how to support formal learning initiatives, and (2) how to enable workplace learning, we could make a major improvement in learning-to-performance outcomes.