Do we learn about Ourselves Online?

T.K. Kang

EdD 2006 Cohort“Delivery of Personal Development Program in Tertiary Education:

Conceptualization and E-learning Challenges”

My Background & Research Questions

Clinical Psychologist since 1985 Long interest in IT and human development Last job: Personal Development & Counselling

Centre, PDCC, HKU How can we understand ourselves better? “The most difficult critical evaluation to make in Psychology is often of oneself” (R.J. Sternberg)

Is cyberspace useful to “meatspace” learning? How should personal development online learning

be organised?

How do we know ourselves better?

? Think

Help Me (Feedback is Key)

My Life: A Classwork in the next slide

My Self-Representation

I take more risk when I write

www.xanga.com/tkkang

As in my experimental project ..

Barriers: Sense Making & Risk

See this (+ evaluation) See this (- evaluation)

Self-Understanding:

Awareness of one’s Strength & Weakness

Cyberspace & Personal Development: Can or Cannot ?

What has cyberspace to offer the Digitally Empowered (DE) generation?

How is it used? What is the current

perception?

Take Survey (type 52370 for survey number)

A Brave New World Ahead

Thank you

What have you learned about yourself today ?

Contact:

h8394413@hkusua.hku.hk