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This open textbook is being utilized in a design course for undergraduate or graduate students by Taylor Moon Castagnari at California State University, San Bernardino. The open textbook provides students with access to Scott McCloud’s Understanding Comics. Moreover, I was able to remove the lab fees from my sections of the Junior Topics Course - Digital Illustration. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to make Digital Illustration a more cost-efficient course during the Winter Intercession. Most student access the open textbook in PDF format via the Canvas Learning Management System.

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.