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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 psychology course for undergraduate students by Jason Reimer at Cal State, San Bernardino. The open textbook is an all-digital research methods instructional resource for research methods courses. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide students with an opportunity to interact with the course information in a manner that allows them to examine their assumptions and test their knowledge. Most student access the open textbook in as a digital platform through Canvas.