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| | Learning Objects Network Inc. - Concepts |
 | | Learning objects are small stand-alone "chunks" of information designed to be easily reused and repackaged to meet the needs of different audiences. |
 | | Learning objects may reflect varying degrees of granularity ranging from as large as a chapter in a book, a case study, or an interactive courseware topic, to smaller items such as a single pedagogical concept (teaching the boiling point of water, for example). |
 | | In order for learning objects to be reusable, portable, and flexible, they are indexed with metadata (like the information on a card catalog in a library) so that they may be later identified, located, accessed, retrieved, and assembled in the context of a particular task or learning event. |
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