{"id":1053,"date":"2017-12-21T19:42:00","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T19:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/lifespandevelopment2\/chapter\/about-this-course-2\/"},"modified":"2024-04-30T19:57:11","modified_gmt":"2024-04-30T19:57:11","slug":"about-this-course","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-lifespandevelopment\/chapter\/about-this-course\/","title":{"raw":"About This Course","rendered":"About This Course"},"content":{"raw":"<div id=\"post-121\" class=\"standard post-121 chapter type-chapter status-publish hentry\">\r\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\r\n<h2 align=\"left\">Introduction to Lifespan Development (Fall 2019)<\/h2>\r\nLifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.\r\n<p align=\"left\">Faculty members may readily adapt the course\u2019s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<h2 align=\"left\">Course Improvements<\/h2>\r\nWe believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes a vast number of data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.\r\n\r\nThis new edition of Lifespan Development includes the following significant improvements and enhancements:\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li><strong>Improved course organization\u00a0<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Content is organized around specific, granular learning outcomes, which are listed at the top of each page.<\/li>\r\n \t<li>Practice questions, try it questions, and quiz questions all align with learning outcomes.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Improved course content<\/strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n \t<li>Course content was significantly enhanced with greater coverage, more examples, news, and research.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>\"Try It\" embedded practice questions <\/strong>for every learning outcome. This means that\u00a0students learn about concepts and then immediately check their understanding with applied practice.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>\"Watch It\"<\/strong> embedded videos that explain and reiterate key concepts throughout the course.<\/li>\r\n \t<li><strong>Discussions and Assignments<\/strong>\u00a0for every module<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\nAs a Waymaker course, this is customizable and delivered with user-friendly personalized learning tools to strengthen engagement and student success. There are formative self-check assessments \u200band\u200b summative quiz questions that can be imported directly into the LMS.\r\n<h2 align=\"left\">Contributors<\/h2>\r\nThis course, based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opencourselibrary.org\/econ-201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifespan Psychology<\/a>\u00a0by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nobaproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noba Project,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/Sr8Ev5Og@10.24:6HoLG-TA@12\/Introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenStax Psychology<\/a>, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:\r\n\r\n<strong>Primary Content Authors<\/strong>\r\nSarah Carter, SUNY Empire State College\r\nMargaret Clark-Plaskie, SUNY Empire State College\r\nDaniel Dickman, Ivy Tech Community College\r\nTera Jones, Central New Mexico Community College\r\nJulie Lazzara, Paradise Valley Community College\r\nStephanie Loalada, Texas A&amp;M University San Antonio\r\nJohn R. Mather, SUNY Empire State College\r\nSonja Ann Miller, Hudson Valley Community College\r\nNancee Ott, North Lake College\r\nJessica Traylor, Gordon State College\r\n\r\n<strong>Acknowledgements<\/strong>\r\nThis book has benefited from the contributions of many people, including Jenauxn, Brooke Appler, Paige Ashworth,\u00a0Jasmine Augustine,\u00a0Caitlin Ayala,\u00a0Sara Beckham,\u00a0Caleb Blazek,\u00a0Jennifer Meehan Brennom, Kelly C,\u00a0Ibeth Chacon,\u00a0Rebecca Chevrel,\u00a0Ben Climer,\u00a0Jamison Crabtree,\u00a0Orion Dittler,\u00a0Michael Earnest, Julia Kay Edgerton,\u00a0Thomas Evans, Ren Foersterling,\u00a0Khloe Gagen,\u00a0Brittany Gavigan,\u00a0Elizabeth Gaudino-Goering, Aline Gianfagna, Sarah Glick, Diana Godinez,\u00a0Marissa Green,\u00a0Katie Jacobs, Manuela Jimenez Herrera, Aubriea Lawson,\u00a0Lydia Levin,\u00a0Brock Meade,\u00a0Tara Morales,\u00a0Shelby Neshem,\u00a0Darnell Parker,\u00a0Savan Patel, Caitlin Pepe,\u00a0Caitlin Jo Pepe,\u00a0Caitlin O'Brien,\u00a0Naomi Percine, Lesae Pfeffer,\u00a0Christie Reimer, Finnian Rich, Autumn Richter, Shannon Rivera, Kimberly Rivers, Belen Saracco, Zaidalyn Schiappa, Rebecca Seghers,\u00a0Rilka Spieler, Molly Sutter, Guadalupe Tautimer, Jamie Vaughan-Signorini, Julius Vellutato, Caitlin Vollmer, Winfield Whitehead, Jennifer Wadley,\u00a0Melanie Werner,\u00a0and Pat Williams.\r\n<h2>About Lumen<\/h2>\r\nLumen Learning courseware is based on open educational resources (OER). When we can find well designed, effective OER that are appropriately licensed, we use them in our courseware. When we can\u2019t find pre-existing OER, we create original content and license it as OER (under a Creative Commons Attribution license).\r\n\r\nLumen\u2019s authoring process doesn\u2019t end when our courseware is released. Our choice to adopt open educational resources means that we have the copyright permissions necessary to engage in continuous improvement of our learning content. Consequently, our courses are continually being revised and updated. Errata reported for our courseware are fixed in a matter of days, as opposed to the traditional model in which errors persist until the next \u201cedition\u201d is printed (often a year or more). Students and faculty can suggest improvements to our courses directly from within the courseware as they use it. And we conduct regular analyses to determine where students are struggling the most in our courseware, and make improvements that specifically target these areas.\r\n\r\nGiven our unique approach, our list of authors and other contributors may look different than the lists you are used to seeing. We provide both a list of the primary content authors (the people involved in the initial creation of the course) and a list of everyone who has contributed suggestions and other improvements to the course since it was first released. We invite you to join us as we create courseware that supports student learning more effectively each semester.\r\n\r\nIf you\u2019d like to connect with us to learn more about adopting this course, please\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Contact Us<\/a>.\r\n\r\nYou can also <a href=\"https:\/\/calendly.com\/lumenlearning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">make an appointment<\/a>\u00a0for <a href=\"http:\/\/lumenlearning.com\/office-hours\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OER Office Hours<\/a> to connect virtually with a live Lumen expert about any question you may have.\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<\/div>","rendered":"<div id=\"post-121\" class=\"standard post-121 chapter type-chapter status-publish hentry\">\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Introduction to Lifespan Development (Fall 2019)<\/h2>\n<p>Lifespan Development examines the physical, cognitive, and socioemotional changes that occur throughout a lifetime. This course covers the essentials in understanding human development, psychological research, and theories of growth and development. Students will come to understand the lifespan perspective and to analyze growth through each of the major stages of development: prenatal development, infancy, early childhood, middle childhood, adolescence, early adulthood (including emerging adulthood), middle adulthood, and late adulthood. The course covers key topics in each of these stages, including major developmental theories, genetics, attachment, education, learning, disabilities, parenting, family life, moral development, illnesses, aging, generativity, and attitudes towards death and dying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Faculty members may readily adapt the course\u2019s OER content to include new developments and research to equip students with what they need to have success in their sociological journey.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Course Improvements<\/h2>\n<p>We believe in making continuous improvements to our courses in order to enhance and facilitate student learning. This newest version of the course includes a vast number of data-driven improvements to assessment questions and text content in order to better illustrate, clarify, and evaluate concepts.<\/p>\n<p>This new edition of Lifespan Development includes the following significant improvements and enhancements:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Improved course organization\u00a0<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Content is organized around specific, granular learning outcomes, which are listed at the top of each page.<\/li>\n<li>Practice questions, try it questions, and quiz questions all align with learning outcomes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Improved course content<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Course content was significantly enhanced with greater coverage, more examples, news, and research.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Try It&#8221; embedded practice questions <\/strong>for every learning outcome. This means that\u00a0students learn about concepts and then immediately check their understanding with applied practice.<\/li>\n<li><strong>&#8220;Watch It&#8221;<\/strong> embedded videos that explain and reiterate key concepts throughout the course.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Discussions and Assignments<\/strong>\u00a0for every module<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As a Waymaker course, this is customizable and delivered with user-friendly personalized learning tools to strengthen engagement and student success. There are formative self-check assessments \u200band\u200b summative quiz questions that can be imported directly into the LMS.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: left;\">Contributors<\/h2>\n<p>This course, based on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/opencourselibrary.org\/econ-201\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lifespan Psychology<\/a>\u00a0by Laura Overstreet, includes additional material from the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/nobaproject.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Noba Project,<\/a>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cnx.org\/contents\/Sr8Ev5Og@10.24:6HoLG-TA@12\/Introduction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">OpenStax Psychology<\/a>, and additional noteworthy contributions by the Lumen Learning team and:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Primary Content Authors<\/strong><br \/>\nSarah Carter, SUNY Empire State College<br \/>\nMargaret Clark-Plaskie, SUNY Empire State College<br \/>\nDaniel Dickman, Ivy Tech Community College<br \/>\nTera Jones, Central New Mexico Community College<br \/>\nJulie Lazzara, Paradise Valley Community College<br \/>\nStephanie Loalada, Texas A&amp;M University San Antonio<br \/>\nJohn R. 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