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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 Physics course for undergraduate or graduate students by Frank Yip at Cal Poly Maritime Academy. The open textbook provides a brief survey of problems in calculus based physics (mechanics) at the first-year undergraduate level. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to eliminate costs of online homework problems. Most students access the open textbook in web browser.