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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 Professor Hacopian at Cal State LA. Students can find course material in the form of PPT slides that are available on Canvas. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was the need to reduce financial strain on students. Most student access the open textbook in on Canvas.