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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 an introductory sociology course for undergraduate students by Eric Strayer, M.A., at Hartnell Community College in Salinas, CA. Students are mostly low-income and working part-time or full-time. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide free open source materials that are supplemented by free online articles and videos. Most student access the free open textbook online at the OpenStax College site or through the course management system.

Reviews: The book has been reviewed by two CCC (CCC1, CCC2) faculty and a UC faculty of the California higher education systems. There is also an Accessibility Evaluation.

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