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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 Human Development course for undergraduate or graduate students by Dr. Kathy Fuller at CSUSM. The open textbook provides concepts associated with the areas of growth and development of children and youth. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to decrease the cost of education for the students and to address current challenges in supporting children and youth most effectively. Most students access the open textbook directly from the associated weekly modules in the CANVAS course shell.