Designing for Openness: Multiple Audiences, Formats and Delivery Channels: Local Government in North Carolina E-Book, Podcast and AR Channel The project is a new edition of the textbook ‘Local ’Government in North Carolina’ as an interactive Open Educational Resource (OER) textbook that can be used at the k12 level as well as material in Citizen Academies. We plan to enhance the e-book with additional multimedia features, augmented reality and an accompanying podcast. We want to encourage readers to use digital technologies and multimedia storytelling for fostering local government relationships and civic engagement. The water we drink, the streets we drive on, the police and fire protection we rely on – local governments provide these and other services every day. The resource ‘Local Government in North Carolina’ has been updated periodically (every 5-10 years) since 1993. We intend to make the new e-book edition easier to update, extendible and adaptable for other contexts by tapping into the open educational resources community. Multiple formats that support reading online, downloading / printing PDF, and e-reader access on kindle (mobi) and other tablets and devices (epup). Audio interviews with local government officials, accompanying podcast channel on podcast.sog.unc.edu Case Studies Study questions, quizzes, quests, and authentic learning activities for different grade levels as well as adult learners (citizen academies, community leadership programs). Accompanying HP Reveal channel, augmented reality layovers with HP Reveal. Licensing as OER (creative commons). New chapter on social media / digital citizenship / online civic reasoning ‘Action steps’, follow-up transfer learning activities at the end of each chapter for different target audiences Video and graphic enhancements Contact: Stefanie Panke & Rick Morse panke@sog.unc.edu, morse@sog.unc.edu Funding: Lenovo Innovation Grant, NCCCMA