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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 physics course for undergraduate students by Dr. Nicholas Nelson at Chico State. The open textbook, University Physics, Volume 1 by OpenStax, provides free access to introductory physics, which is taken by almost all STEM majors . The main motivation to adopt an open textbook was to provide all students with a free textbook in place of the expensive commercial textbooks commonly used. Most students access the open textbook in a web-based format.