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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 public speaking course for undergraduate students by Mark Stoner, Ph.D., at California State University, Sacramento. This book was created by speech professionals who wanted to help create low-cost instructional materials. The primary motivation for adopting an OER textbook was cost since students are increasingly not buying the high-cost textbooks. Being able to organically use just the material needed for the course design rather than using more to justify the cost was another factor. Students access the text online in chapters formatted as PDF.

Reviews: The book has been reviewed by a CCC faculty member, CSU faculty member and a UC faculty member of the California higher education system. There is also an Accessibility Evaluation.

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