Why does the propsect of online learning make so many managers salivate? they say it's the thought of allowing employees to get the training they need without having to spend big blocks of time ina classroom away from their "real" work ....

But the more literal translation ... is often this: Let's move learning out of the workday and into the employee's own -- uncompensated -- time.

-- Dave Zielinski, Training, Feb. 2000
(quoted in University Business, April, 2000)