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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 Pacific Studies course for undergraduate students by Dr. Jess Marinaccio at California State University, Dominguez Hills. The open textbook provides clear information on the history and culture of the Pacific region. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide students with no-cost learning materials that were more straightforward than many of the materials typically used in the Pacific Studies discipline. Most students access the open textbook in PDF format on the course management system Canvas.