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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 communication course for undergraduate students by Armeda C. Reitzel, Ph.D., at Humboldt State University. The open textbook provides a general foundation in the principles and practices of public speaking and includes multiple examples and samples to support student learning. The main motivations to adopt an open textbook were ease of accessibility and cost. Since my course is 100% online, it made sense to use a textbook that could be accessed online. Most students access this open textbook online.

Reviews: The book has been reviewed by a faculty member from CCC, one from CSU and one from UC of the California higher education systems. There are also two Accessibility Evaluations (ACC1 and ACC2).

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