Learning just happens, continuously, everywhere, even by reading this paper one may leave with some knowledge. When it comes to environment in which learning happens, there is no limit. We hear seldom that education should go back to classroom, in physical environment. Yes, nothing is wrong with this desire, but learning does not come only from a teacher's preach or from group interaction in a F2F environment. Learning crystalizes and sediment in time and originates from a far more varied sources that complement classroom-based teaching or training. These other sources may include online (self-paced or tutor-facilitated) learning, personal study, on-the-job interaction, social (professional) exchanges or battlefield-based operational experiences (in a lifelong learning spirit). How do we integrate the outcomes of all these experiences? How can we make the learning analytics available to the decision makers at various levels: human resources departments, direct superior, higher echelons? It may take a centralised, integrated, secure and synchronised system of human resources services, qualifications frameworks, training, education, operational experiences, peace-time training and simulation to ensure that operational and social requirements are met and learning follow them. In this paper we will try to define the role and place of the advanced distributed learning technologies as part of a holistic professional development architecture.

qualification framework, blended learning, ADL