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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 collection of open educational resources (OER) is being utilized in a Sociolinguistics course for undergraduate and graduate students (combined class) by Dr. Teresa Fernández-Ulloa at California State University, Bakersfield. The OER collection includes curated videos, open-access journal articles, online materials, and instructor-created summaries and short explanations. These resources provide a brief overview of key topics in sociolinguistics, including phonetic, lexical, and syntactic variation, as well as instructor-generated notes, quizzes, and discussion prompts, plus a midterm and a final project. The main motivation to adopt open materials was to promote equitable access and integrate authentic, current examples of language use without the cost of a traditional textbook. Students access the materials through the course Learning Management System (Canvas), using embedded links to online content.