Poster Presentation at EdMedia 2018

1. 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)
textbookthatcanbeusedat thek12 level as well as material inCitizen
Academies. We plan to enhance the e-book with additional
multimedia features, augmented reality and an accompanying
podcast. Wewantto encouragereadersto usedigital technologiesand
multimedia storytelling for fostering local government relationships
andcivicengagement.
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 tappinginto theopeneducational resourcescommunity.
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.
o Multipleformatsthatsupportreadingonline,downloading/printing
PDF, ande-reader accessonkindle(mobi)andother tabletsanddevices
(epup).
o Audio interviewswithlocal governmentofficials, accompanyingpodcast
channel onpodcast.sog.unc.edu
o Case Studies
o Study questions, quizzes, quests, andauthenticlearningactivitiesfor
differentgradelevelsaswell asadultlearners(citizenacademies,
community leadershipprograms).
o AccompanyingHP Reveal channel, augmentedreality layoverswithHP
Reveal.
o LicensingasOER (creativecommons).
o New chapter onsocial media/digital citizenship/ onlinecivicreasoning
o ‘Actionsteps’, follow-uptransfer learningactivitiesattheendofeach
chapter for differenttargetaudiences
o Video andgraphicenhancements
Contact:
Stefanie Panke & Rick Morse
panke@sog.unc.edu, morse@sog.unc.edu
Funding:
Lenovo Innovation Grant, NCCCMA