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Abstract

E-learning has so far failed to deliver what it has promised in terms of improvement to the student experience. The focus in recent years seems to have been placed mostly towards electronic content management and delivery, and less towards students' activities. Concepts from Object Oriented (OO) programming have been borrowed to create Learning Objects. These objects lack instructional and interactional flexibility and tend to possess content dependencies which compromise their reusability. Software beans are examples of OO frameworks which separate activity management from content management. When this is incorporated at the right level of granularity, these Learning Objects gain these qualities and are better described as Learning Beans (LBs).