Methodological Guidelines for the Design and Integration of Software Learning Objects for Scientific Programming Education

Table 2

Grounding with supporting theories.

Name of theory	Contributors	Literature
Pragmatism	Peirce	[8, 9]
Constructivism	Piaget	[10]
Constructionism	Papert	[11, 12]
Model-centred instruction	Gibbons	[13]
Simulative reasoning theory	Johnson-Laird	[14]
Model-based scientific reasoning theory	Nersessian, Magnani, Thagard	[15–19]
Theory of smart learning objects	Štuikys, Damaševičius, Burbaitė	[6, 20]
Theory of design science research	Simon, Hevner, Vaishnavi, Kuechler	[3, 4, 7, 21]