OER Knowledge CloudConference PaperThe sustained reach and impact of open educational resourcesThe sustained reach and impact of open educational resources20152015/04Rolfe, VivienOpen Educational Resourcesopen educationOERseducational impacteducation sustainabilityUnited KingdomUnited KingdomRoyal Welsh College of Music and DramaFrom 2009 to 2012, De Montfort University participated in the UK Open Educational Resource (OER) programme releasing bioscience materials, with the Virtual Analytical Laboratory (VAL), the SCOOTER Project and generic materials released in Biology Courses (Rolfe 2015). VAL OER were released on a static HTML website, whilst for phases 2 and 3, the premise was to use search engine optimisation (SEO) techniques to enhance discovery by the liberal distribution of OER on the web, with hyperlinks back to project WordPress blogs to drive web traffic (Rolfe & Griffin 2011).yeshttp://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26824http://eprints.uwe.ac.uk/26824UWE Upload OER15a.pdfCardiff, United Kingdom, United Kingdom