People use smartphones more than they use desktops, laptops, and PCs. They use it for various purposes, including reading the news, looking for services, shopping online, attending classes, banking, and more. Especially after the worldwide lockdown, students have resorted to using smartphones extensively for attending online classes and courses provided by educational institutions. 

A survey by the National Council of Educational Research and Training (NCERT) in August 2020 said that 80 to 90% of students depend on mobile learning. This has made it necessary for educational institutions to offer webpages that load quickly and offer a good user experience across devices. Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) is an ideal solution to ensure these.  

What is AMP?

Accelerated Mobile Pages is a Google project to address the heavily increased traffic from mobile devices in recent months. It is an open-source framework for loading publisher’s sites faster on mobile. It improves the internet’s performance on mobile devices by lessening Content Delivery Network and JavaScript and CSS components. 

What are the benefits of AMP?

AMP ensures that your web pages are mobile-friendly, SEO-friendly, cross-browser compatible, cross-device compatible, and fast-loading. Further, it facilitates optimized data consumption by enabling users to install the website as an app on their home screen instead of taking them to an app store.

Why do online educational institutions need AMP implementation?

Many educational institutions have started offering classes and courses online so that the worldwide pandemic doesn’t end up leaving a big gap in learning. Such institutions would benefit themselves, their teachers, and their students by implementing AMP. Here are the reasons why.

1. Most students use mobile devices for learning online.

As mentioned earlier, an enormous number of students resort to using mobile devices for attending online classes. The same survey by NCERT also states that 50% of students do not even have access to their textbooks. They rely on the study materials like course contents, worksheets, activities, videos, assignments, etc., sent by their schools. The use of AMP can ensure a better learning experience for such students. 

• AMP allows learning from anywhere

When online educational institutions offer their platform on mobile-ready apps, students can access it from anywhere where there is an internet signal. They can access it even when they are out of their home town or commuting. Implementing AMP allows institutions to deliver all the features of their virtual classrooms in mobile-friendly apps. 

• AMP also allows teaching from anywhere

Statistics say that 73% of teachers access digital content from mobile devices. AMP implementation makes it easy and convenient for the teaching staff working at your institution to teach from anywhere. They can access resources, content, and materials for their teaching from wherever they are. 

• AMP combines education with entertainment

Students tend to imbibe and recall more information when they feel relaxed. Mobile-ready apps merge education with entertainment. This makes learning a joyful experience for students who shun tough lectures and boring homework. The leisurely approach can alleviate stress in students and improve their learning potential. This is a boon, especially when reports of student suicidal rates due to online classes related stress have elevated in our country. 

• Online resources

Implementation of AMP also lets educational institutions provide their students with access to a wealth of online resources like PDFs and e-books. This would be a big privilege for knowledge seekers. And this kind of freedom to access cannot be provided by the traditional classroom-based educational system, which is limited by space and time boundaries. 

• AMP opens up opportunities

Educational institutions that would like to incorporate broader improvements to learning experiences would also benefit from AMP. For instance, at the University Of Notre Dame, Indiana, a professor found that even students who were initially interested in philosophy did not opt for it after attending their 14- week course- “Introduction to Philosophy.” She, therefore, wanted to introduce a favorable change to it.

Rather than taking them through the intellectual history of Europe over the course’s duration, she started stressing the social value of philosophical inquiry and the importance of ethical living. She used digital tools to help in the transit. Instead of heavy texts, she allowed students to engage with philosophy writing through “interactive digital essays.” These were accelerated mobile pages linked to the online syllabus, which many students responded to positively.

Ending words.

Accelerated Mobile Pages improves the internet’s performance on mobile devices by lessening Content Delivery Network and JavaScript and CSS components. Those educational institutions offering classes and courses online would benefit themselves, their teachers, and their students by implementing AMP.  

This is because many students are using mobile devices such as tabs and smartphones for learning online. AMP ensures fast-loading and better user experience, allowing learning and teaching from anywhere, education combined with entertainment, access to quality online resources, and opening up new opportunities. #KhabarLive #hydnews