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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 management course for graduate students by Bailey Benedict at California State University – San Bernardino. The open textbook provides detailed coverage of written and oral communication, as well as principles of management. The book is supplemented with other online readings, podcasts, and videos made by the instructor. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to save students money. Most students access the open textbook online.