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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.

These free resources are being utilized in a Psychology course for undergraduate or graduate students by Dr. Dana Saifan at California State University, Los Angeles. The open resources provide a wide range of accessible and practical information on child maltreatment and domestic violence, largely from a clinical psychology perspective. The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to make the course affordable for students, most of whom are working class. Students access the materials online on our Canvas course website.