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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.  

This open textbook is being utilized in an economics course for undergraduate students by Daniel MacDonald, Ph.D., at CSU San Bernardino. Each chapter of the open textbook begins with an issue that is then addressed at the end of the chapter using the tools acquired in that chapter. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to show how a high-quality educational experience (drawing on real-world applications and critical thinking skills) can be obtained using open educational materials. Most student access the open textbook in PDF format.

Reviews: The book has been reviewed by two faculty from the CSU (CSU1 and CSU2) and one from CCC within the California higher education systems.

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