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

This eportfolio of an open textbook is being utilized in a psychology course for undergraduate students by Brandi Goodspeed, M.A. at Humboldt State University. The open textbook provides a fully customizable and incredibly straight-forward/easy-to-read introduction to important concepts in the field of psychology. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to make the classroom more accessible. Most student access the open textbook through The Nova Project.