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Competition Latest news You Say Feedback Spotlight On Competition Everyone seems to be talking about the credit crunch. According to the OpenLearn study unit Personal finance: debt and borrowing what accounted for over four-fifths of the UK’s £1.1 trillion of personal debt in 2005? For the chance to win an OpenLearn memory stick, email us the answer. Visit the study unit for a clue .Read our terms and conditions for this competition. Latest news: OpenLearn Scotland We’ve recently launched OpenLearn Scotland,  a collection of free educational resources which are of particular relevance to Scotland. They are intended to be of interest not only to people living in Scotland but to anyone, anywhere in the world, wishing to know more about Scottish society, culture and landscape. New study units include:   New quarterly newsletter OpenLearn newsletters are now quarterly. To keep a more regular check on new study units, subscribe to our LearningSpace RSS feed. Latest study units   Top five units This month’s five most popular OpenLearn units are: Start writing fiction Writing what you know What is good writing?  The importance of interpersonal skills Espacios publicos You say… We’ve had lots of requests from learners wanting to be recognised for their efforts on OpenLearn, so we’ve developed a “Statement of Activity”. This is a printable report that shows what you have viewed on the site. It’s accessed from your myLearningSpace* and will give you (and your boss/mentor/ friends and family!) evidence of the time you have spent studying OpenLearn materials. Feedback OpenLearn has seen over 2 million people take advantage of free education since we launched in October 2006. It’s your involvement and feedback that keeps the website alive – so please forward this newsletter to a friend to spread the word. Spotlight on… editing OpenLearn study units Want to make your own mark on OpenLearn? There is a new simple editing interface which allows you to edit any of the Open University study units in the LabSpace. You might want to translate the study unit, add new case studies, or even rewrite the unit using your own learning materials. Everything you publish will be shared under a Creative Commons licence with the rest of the world. If you want to make a change to a study unit on the LabSpace all you have to do is: 1. Enter the study unit of your choice. 2. Make a copy of the unit for revising. 3. Turn editing on. 4. Get going in an easy editing interface (or switch to HTML view if you prefer to code).   See the QuickStart guide to find out more about editing study units. * Don’t forget, registered users will need to be logged in to access their personal myLearningSpace and use our free learning tools.  Non-registered users will need to register.  Registration is completely free and makes no future requirements of you.  You can find out more information on the Getting Started page. The incredible shrinking chip Funding elite sports Improving aerobic fitness Business organisations and their environments: Culture Project management Company law in context Getting started with SPSS Real functions and graphs Mathematical language Campaigns and organisations Introduction to international development management Creativity, community and ICT Healthcare technology management Robert Owen and New Lanark Social work and the law in Scotland Mental health practice: Bonnyrigg The history of medicine: a Scottish perspective Heritage case studies: Scotland Great Scots: Napier Forth Road Bridge Health, disease and society: Scottish influence in the 19th century Tay Bridge disaster Chartered teachers in Scotland Science in the Scottish Enlightenment Oil industry in Scotland: making photographs, making demands Who belongs to Glasgow? Poverty in Scotland Great Scots: Maxwell

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