Abstract:

Indonesia Cyber Education Institute is a newly launched digital marketplace for online courses in Indonesia. Its collection has reached 2000 online courses from 33 partner institutions serving more than 7000 students in Indonesia. As an innovation, ICE Institute introduces new aspects to the higher education landscape in Indonesia, i.e.,
1) the unbundled courses to be taken and certified individually as opposed to the bundled or packaged courses,
2) flexible learning – anytime, anywhere, anybody through the offering of MOOCs for the majority of the collection, and
3) it promotes inter-institutions recognition of online courses.

As Indonesia is moving strongly toward the implementation of online learning in higher education, ICE Institute as a digital marketplace of online courses has an important role in promoting the practices, especially under the newest freedom learning policy from the Government of Indonesia combined with the Covid-19 Pandemic disruption.

This paper is based on the four small studies conducted by the ICE Institute to discuss students‘ and lecturers‘ reflections as users of ICE Institute, specifically the students‘ socioemotional reflections and attitudes on the use of ICE Institute as the new digital marketplace in Indonesia, and lecturers‘ reflections on their participation in delivering courses via ICE Institute digital marketplace. The four studies were conducted to tap into students‘ online learning experience, as well as lecturers‘ online teaching experience at ICE Institute. Students‘ online learning journey has been reported to have been influenced by the perceived usefulness of the system, ease of use, and facilities that they owned to access the online courses. Meanwhile, lecturers reported that their participation to conduct online courses through ICE Institute has been influenced mainly by the perceived benefit and the facilities that they can access and use for conducting online courses. Furthermore, both students and lecturers also offer some suggestions for improving the ICE Institute as an online learning ecosystem in Indonesia.

Keywords:

ICE Institute, Online Learning, Indonesia.