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The modern field of instructional design is like others that are based on high technology—dynamic and progressively complex so there’s always a new concept, procedure or software package coming along. One of the latest concepts to become part of the field is that of learning objects. Associated fields such as software engineering have the related concept of object oriented design and programming. In their text Programming Concepts in Java, J.N. Patterson, Hume and Christine Stephenson define an object as “An object is a set of data and the methods which operate on that data” ( Patterson Hume and Stephenson 1998, p. 11).
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Frantiska, J.J. (2016). Background and Significance. In: Creating Reusable Learning Objects. SpringerBriefs in Educational Communications and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32889-8_1
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