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The California State University and MERLOT have partnered to showcase how and why faculty have adopted Open Educational Resources (OER) to facilitate equitable access to their students’ course materials. This Faculty Showcase represent Open Educational Practices where faculty are sharing their "know-how" for adopting OER in their courses.  

U.S. History 1877 to Present - HIST 2010CSU Instructor Open Textbook Adoption Portrait

Abstract: This open textbook is being utilized in a history course for undergraduate students by Michael Karp at California State University, San Bernardino’s Palm Desert Campus.  The open textbook provides a free online and collaboratively built narrative of American history for college-level courses. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to save students money and provide a quality and accessible textbook. The American Yawp was also an attractive text to adopt because it is written by historians and offered through Stanford University Press—but as an open resource—it is not motivated by profit or other business models. Most students access the open textbook online, either using a web browser or by downloading free pdf copies of each volume. For students who prefer a hard copy, they are available new for $25 from Stanford University Press.

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