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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 Showcases represent Open Educational Practices where faculty are sharing their "know-how" for adopting OER in their courses.  

These e-books are being utilized in a Communication Studies course for undergraduate students by Dr. Thomas Corrigan at California State University, San Bernardino. These e-books provide students with fast, easy access to course materials without imposing direct, out-of-pockets costs for the student (indirect costs are incurred, though, as these e-books require licensing via the university library). The main motivation to adopt these open textbooks was to reduce the cost of course texts for students and to make those texts easily accessible during Covid-19. Most students access these texts as e-books through the University’s Pfau Library website.

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