Recent advances in mobile devices have opened up opportunities for every individual to be able to communicate and obtain information quicker. Users of mobile devices in Asia now account for 49% of mobile device users in the world. This growth is partly supported by the rapid development of the Internet use. Indonesia has a potentially huge market in the use of mobile devices and Internet. The extent of utilization of mobile devices by the students pursuing higher education, especially at Universitas Terbuka (UT), is an important component of this development. This study seeks to develop an understanding of the following issues: (1) the types of the mobile devices that are used by students, (2) the types of learning and information accessed through mobile devices, (3) the time used to access learning through mobile devices, (4) the degree of students’ satisfaction in using the mobile devices for learning, and (5) the effectiveness of using mobile devices for learning. The data of this research were collected by using an online questionnaire containing 26 questions. The questionnaires were distributed to UT students from four faculties and the Graduate Programs from all UT’s regional offices at 38 locations spread across Indonesia, including UT’s regional office for overseas student. Overall, there were 767 respondents. The results of this research show that the utilization of mobile devices, especially in the use of smartphones to access UT’s online learning, seems to have great potential.

he Covid-19 pandemic forced all universities in Indonesia to divert their learning process from face to face to online mode within a limited resource and in a very short time. The approach, methods, and mechanisms of learning process, which have to be adjusted, during the Covid-19 are extremely varied within university. The study was conducted to explore the implementation of online learning in Indonesia during Covid-19 pandemic. In order to get information on how the institution, lecturers and students face this situation, an online survey was conducted. The questionnaire contained some aspects of approaches, methods and mechanisms of online learning; provisions of learning materials; resources such as devices for accessing online learning, internet connection, the cost of the internet connection; as well as the usability of online learning after the Covid-19 pandemic. There were 828 respondents participating in the survey. The participants involved in the survey were lecturers (51.21%) and students (35.39%) from various universities and the rest 13.41% from other institutions in Indonesia. A case study of Universitas Terbuka on the strategies, methods, and techniques of organizing online learning during the Covid-19 pandemic was discussed specifically to enrich the information. Based on the information from online survey and a case study of Universitas Terbuka, the learning strategies, methods and technics in online learning in the future, after the Covid-19 pandemic have been addressed.

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The use of collaborative online learning models is expected to develop teamwork and student participation, which is a part of 'non-cognitive skills' that are needed for self-development. The quasi-experimental research on the collaborative online learning model aimed to analyze its effect on students' learning processes and students' outcomes; and to analyze student experiences in implementing such a model. The study sample was a group of 85 students from an Open University who participated in the online tutorial and consisted of 14 teams. The data on students' learning processes and students' outcomes was taken from the online course on Analytic Learning and from their responses to an online questionnaire, and the results obtained were analyzed. In terms of students' performance, the correlation between the number of posts and student scores on the online tutorial indicated a positive correlation (r = 0.506, p-value 0.01), and the correlation between the number of posts with the final score also indicated a positive correlation (r = 0.348, p-value 0.01). The results showed a significant difference in the number of posts in the online tutorial in terms of the region of origin/student's domicile (p-value = 0.005). There were ten aspects of collaboration measured through online questionnaires in the study. The results of the measurements on the 10 aspects showed that the average rating of respondents was above 4.0 (strongly agree to strongly disagree) for 9 aspects, and for one, it was 3.90.