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These open learning materials are being utilized in an Economics course for undergraduate students by Div Bhagia at California State University, Fullerton. The open materials provide supplemental information to support slides and materials that have the main course content. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to find updated materials that had no additional costs. Most student access the open materials from the professor’s website.

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.