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The open textbook approach is being utilized in a Biology course for undergraduate students (upper division general education course) by Rachel Schleiger at California State University, Chico. In the course indicated above (BIOL 318), multiple open textbooks are being utilized to cover a large diversity of content for the course (human biology, anatomy, physiology, and embryology). The main motivation to adopt open textbook(s) was to decrease student cost of courses outside of tuition. Most students will access the open textbook in the academic learning platform (Canvas) being utilized by California State University, Chico. Links for open textbooks will be available in multiple places on the platform. More specifically, the open textbooks utilized allow the instructor to link individual chapters. This way there is no logistical confusion for students trying to access content when multiple textbooks are used.