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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 a philosophy course for undergraduate students by Katie Howard at Cal State, Los Angeles. The open textbook provides classic texts in moral philosophy, alongside contemporary texts on animal rights and reproductive justice, as well as supplementary lectures and interactive exercises from OER repositories. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to make my course more accessible to low-income students and non-philosophy majors who may be reluctant to purchase a textbook. Most student access the open textbook in Canvas via personal computers.