THE EFFECTIVENESS OF ANONYMOUS AGENTS IN COMPUTER-SUPPORTED COLLABORATIVE LEARNING

This paper shows the effectiveness of Anonymous Agents in the facilitation of students' Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) in a Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) environment. The main objective of CSCL is to provide an environment or situation that to enhance their learning experience and to facilitate collective learning or group cognition [1] [2] and its aims to provide a shared information workspace to facilitate the creation, exchange, retention, and reuse of knowledge among team or group of students as a virtual team. Previous researches show that the identifiable such as status structure, may affect virtual team cohesiveness, interpersonal attraction, group pride, and task commitment among team members. On the other hand, using anonymity could help students in showing opinion, encouraging engagement and interaction in virtual team. The Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire and Self/ Peer Evaluation Form was used to study how Anonymous Agents affect on Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) and Virtual Team Learning. The experiment was conducted in Thailand with a target group of university students by quantitative (quasi-experimental research) method, and the result will be concluded and discussed.