Learning objects aren't such a hot deal after all

Teemu Leinonen has some good critique on learning objects, check that out.
My personal and educated opinion is that LOs are just a desperate attempt of educational publishers to keep their revenues flowing, by migrating from deadwood textbooks to digital content. And since having modular, reusable components in IT (in software engineering) produces enormous savings, then it makes sense to have modular, reusable components
in learning as well, right? WRONG.
Learning for humans happens in context. Having complete reusability means having no context, and vice versa. Modularity and reusability are great when the material is to be used by a machine, but not when the user is a human brain – our brains need concrete, memorable, weird things that are anchored to our previous experiences and linked to our motivations and goals. LOs can’t achieve that while being completely reusable and thus contextless.