OER Knowledge CloudJournal ArticleRepurposing with a purpose: A story with a happy endingRepurposing with a purpose: A story with a happy ending20102010/03Greaves, LynRoller, SibelBradley, Clairesituated learningscaffoldingRLOsreusereusable learning objectsresearchrepurposeOER creationlearning objectslearning designse-materials developmentblended learningengJournal of Interactive Media in Education20101161365-893XThe work reported here forms part of a UK Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) funded project (BL4ACE) (http://bl4ace.tvu.ac.uk/). This project built on previous work that evaluated the effectiveness of a learning design to underpin academic competence in a Business Studies degree. A significant concern of the blended learning design was to scaffold independent learning activities by incorporating and reusing interactive Reusable Learning Objects (RLOs) within a Virtual Learning Environment (VLE). This paper reports on improvements in learner experience and performance following the transfer of the established Business Studies learning design across subject domains to a Science module. It reports on the enhancement of both modules by reusing and repurposing existing RLOs from other Institutions, and evaluates the experiences of both Business and Science students using the support provided through the interactive learning materials.yeshttp://dx.doi.org/10.5334/2010-5http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/2010-5171-1683-2-PB.pdf