*Coming Soon: Lifespan Development

Lumen’s new Lifespan Development course will be delivered in Lumen One, a new platform that brings together the best of Lumen’s teaching & learning solutions including a full suite of professional development resources to support evidence-based teaching.

Designed to Support Equity

Combining the best features across Lumen, Lumen One is the first courseware product built with a focus on equity. With support from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Lumen One was developed to promote equitable outcomes in gateway courses. Lumen One’s unique features are specifically designed to boost participation, engagement, and overall learning to ensure success for all students.

Highlight features of Lumen One:

  • Tools to create and foster connection between faculty and students.
  • A Faculty Engagement center that provides faculty with easy-to-access actionable data to enable timely interventions when students need it the most.
  • Varied, relevant content designed to engage students.
  • Personalized study plans with immediate feedback to reinforce strong study skills.
  • Easy-to-use automated messaging tools to better support students.
  • Supported peer community to provide students with meaningful help from subject matter experts and peers.
  • Embedded resources to support faculty to use effective teaching practices and easily do their best work.

Content* 

Lifespan Development

  • Human Development
  • The Lifespan Perspective
  • Research in Lifespan Development

Developmental Theories

  • Psychodynamic Theories
  • Behavioral and Cognitive Theories
  • The Humanistic, Contextual, and Evolutionary Perspectives of Development
  • Comparing and Evaluating Lifespan Theories

Prenatal Development

  • Biological Foundations of Human Development
  • Prenatal Development
  • Birth and Delivery

Infancy

  • Physical Growth and Development in Newborns and Toddlers
  • Cognitive Development in Infants and Toddlers
  • Emotional and Social Development During Infancy

Early Childhood

  • Physical Development in Early Childhood
  • Cognitive Development in Early Childhood
  • Emotional and Social Development in Early Childhood

Middle Childhood

  • Physical Development in Middle Childhood
  • Cognitive Development in Middle Childhood
  • Educational Issues During Middle Childhood
  • Emotional and Social Development in Middle Childhood

Adolescence

  • Physical Growth and Development in Adolescence
  • Cognitive Development in Adolescence
  • Emotional and Social Development in Adolescence

Early Adulthood

  • Physical Development in Early Adulthood
  • Cognitive Development in Early Adulthood
  • Theories of Adult Psychosocial Development
  • Theories of Early Adult Psychosocial Development
  • Relationships in Early Adulthood

Middle Adulthood

  • Physical Development in Middle Adulthood
  • Cognitive Development in Middle Adulthood
  • Emotional and Social Development in Middle Adulthood
  • Relationships in Middle Adulthood

Late Adulthood

  • Physical Development in Late Adulthood
  • Cognitive Development in Late Adulthood
  • Psychosocial Development in Late Adulthood

Death and Dying

  • Understanding Death
  • Emotions Related to Death
  • Facing Death

*Subject to minor changes before release

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