The enclosed article provides an overview of some of the finer points of (successfully) building educational mobile apps that by their very nature should be (primarily) a medium for greater end-user (student) access… demonstrating additional value first and foremost (by making them device agnostic; easy to use; learning-focused; and, collaborative in nature whereas the entire community of students; staff / faculty and administration benefit from their deployment).
(Source) The Guardian U.K.: http://goo.gl/nj2Gi