COOLforEd (http://coolfored.org) was established through California state legislation seeking to make higher education more affordable by providing faculty and students with access to open and low-cost instructional materials. Working with the California Open Educational Resources Council (COERC), COOLforEd features peer-reviewed open textbooks for the 50 highest impact college courses. In addition, best practices of instructors and their students who have successfully adopted open textbooks