(IEEE, 2017) Njenga, Stephen T.; Oboko, Robert O.; Omwenga, Elijah I.; Muuro, Elizaphan M.
Group cognitive conflicts occur when a learner in a
collaborative mobile learning environment becomes aware of a
discrepancy between his/her existing cognitive framework and
new information or experience. The cognitive conflicts stimulate
the learning process by making an individual to move from
his/her learning sphere and participate with others in the
learning process. However, there is a big challenge on how
students handle and resolve conflicts during collaborative
learning. Intelligent agents have been used in this paper to
provide support for group interactions by regulating the group
conflicts. An experimental design with one control group and two
experimental groups (role playing and guided negotiation) is used
to compare levels of group knowledge construction. The findings
showed improved levels of knowledge construction where
regulated conflicts were used compared to where they were not
used.