Aspects of the invention enable one or more persons to be provided with effective and relevant education, training, coaching or other learning in a manner that can be integrated with their personal, business or other ordinary activities. Aspects further enable contouring of the learning to better meet a person's specific needs and providing of assistance to the person as he attempts to utilize what he has learned. An embodiment of the invention provides activity descriptors within existing scheduling, todo, communication or other locally or remotely executable ordinary activity system that users may otherwise use to conduct personal, business or other ordinary activities. A user initiating, scheduling or selecting an ordinary activity and selecting an activity descriptor may schedule or initiate providing of learning activities. The learning activities, which may be provided via a course model including anchored or non-anchored course sessions, may then be provided according to user-goal or evaluation determinable levels, and/or according to one or more of opportunistic, deterministic and/or other learning approaches. The learning may also include providing to the user one or more of preparatory education content, prompting education content for assisting the user in conducting the activity or activities, user preparedness and/or completion performance evaluation and/or other learning.