I really encourage you to review Apple's iPad User Experience Guidelines, which provide developers with guidance on how to create optimized user interfaces and experiences. Our iPad Learning Design Principles will have to be derived from these standards. Moreover, they will get you innovatively thinking "inside the new box".
In a nutshell, Apple states that the best iPad applications:
• Downplay application UI so that the focus is on the content
• Present the content in beautiful, often realistic ways
• Take full advantage of device capabilities to enable enhanced interaction
The key concepts for getting this accomplished are (see UX Magazine for an excellent summary):
• Aim to Support all Orientations
• Enhance Interactivity (Don’t Just Add Features)
• Flatten Your Information Hierarchy
• Reduce Full-Screen Transitions
• Enable Collaboration and Connectedness
• Add Physicality and Heightened Realism
• Delight People with Stunning Graphics
• De-emphasize User Interface Controls
• Minimize Modality
• Rethink Your Lists
• Consider Multifinger Gestures
• Consider Popovers for Some Modal Tasks
• Restrict Complexity in Modal Tasks
• Downplay File-Handling Operations
• Ask People to Save Only When Necessary
• Start Instantly
• Always Be Prepared to Stop
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