Dive Summary:

• The United Kingdom's largest distance-learning institution of higher education, the Open University, will release the OUAnywhere app next year.
• The app will enable students to access their course materials through smartphones and tablets.
• The app will at least be available for iPads, iPhones, Kindle Fires, Android and Microsoft Surface devices.

From the article:

"U.K.-based distance learning university, the Open University, is developing a series of apps to deliver undergraduate course materials to students’ smartphones and tablet devices, starting next year. The OUAnywhere app will allow undergraduates to access their main course materials through their handheld devices, along with the audio and visual content the OU produces to support studies.

The team developing the apps say they are being designed from the ground-up for touch interfaces, and will offer 'high quality visual images rather than lists'. ..."