iPAD Project Directions

As I read about all of these places of learning implimenting new iPAD projects, I do not see a goal to their projects.  Two of the projects I am working on focus on three to four apps to acheive a stated goal.  The other one is open ended, but I hope to limited it down to ten to fifteen apps.  Most projects sounds as if they are giving students iPADs and telling them to go forth and figure it out on their own.  This is how most one to one laptops projects fail.  One thing I have found is that there are not as many textbooks available for the iPAD as I thought.  Inkling and CourseSmart are the two apps that have the most textbooks available.  Having access to the majority of textbooks for the state of North Carolina and their ematerials are mostly an HTML viewer with pages saved as images.   Publishers of textbooks are not ready for the mobile revolution.   So I am interested to see how some of the textbooks projects woorkout.   I would like to here about projects that have a focus.