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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 psychology course for undergraduate students by Kim Proctor, Ph.D. at California State University Dominguez Hills. The open textbook provides online search features, text highlighting functions, accessibility options, video links, a course cartridge so that chapters can be embedded directly into a Canvas course online course, as well as supplemental lecture slides and chapter quizzes. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide students with cost a free open source text that is easy to use, adaptable, with up-to date references to current issues, references that current college students will relate to and useful supplemental materials. Most students access the open textbook using downloadable pdf, online link, or embedded Canvas link methods.