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This open textbook is being utilized in a sociology course for undergraduate by Dinur Blum at California State University, Los Angeles. The open textbook provides easy to understand explanations, a reading and notetaking guide, a time management guide, and students can listen to the textbook as an audio book. My main motivation to adopt an open textbook was in finding ways of helping students save money and reduce some of the financial stress of attending college. Most student access the open textbook in online format – I paste the link to the book on our Canvas course page. 

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.