To answer the first research question, this study explored how individual coping styles, in terms of
monitoring and blunting, can be used to identify students’ willingness to collaborate in a Web-based learning
environment. The combination of quantitative and qualitative methods suggested that, in this group, more of
the students were monitors than blunters. They tend to pay attention to the deadlines of asynchronous online
learning. They were willing to take the lead when some group members do not contribute sufficiently. Since
students were school librarians, usually having some teaching experience, their professional training may
have influenced their coping style, resulting in their taking more proactive roles.