What Is MyDevelopmentLab?
The moment you know.
Educators know it. Students know it. It’s that inspired moment when something that was difficult to understand suddenly makes perfect sense. Our MyLab products have been designed and refined with a single purpose in mind–to help educators create that moment of understanding with their students.
The new MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed. It provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student. And, it comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.
MyDevelopmentLab can be used by itself or linked to any learning management system. To learn more about how the new MyDevelopmentLab combines proven learning applications with powerful assessment, visit http://www.pearsonhighered.com/newmylabs.
Appropriate Courses
MyDevelopmentLab is available for Child Development, Adolescent Development, and Lifespan Development courses, as well as Human Sexuality courses.
Features and Benefits
MyDevelopmentLab delivers proven results in helping individual students succeed.
- Pearson MyLabs are currently in use by millions of students each year across a variety of disciplines.
- MyDevelopmentLab works–but don’t take our word for it. Visit our MyLab / Mastering site to read white papers, case studies, and testimonials from instructors and students that consistently demonstrate the success of our MyLabs.
MyDevelopmentLab provides engaging experiences that personalize, stimulate, and measure learning for each student.
- MyVirtualChild and MyVirtualTeen interactive simulations allow students to raise a child from birth to age 18 and monitor the effects of their parenting decisions over time. **for development courses only
- Media assignments for each chapter—including videos with assignable questions—feed directly into the gradebook, enabling instructors to track student progress automatically.
- The Pearson eText lets students access their textbook anytime, anywhere, and any way they want—including listening online or downloading to iPad.
- A personalized study plan for each student, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, arranges content from less complex thinking—like remembering and understanding—to more complex critical thinking—like applying and analyzing. This layered approach promotes better critical-thinking skills, and helps students succeed in the course and beyond.
- Assessment tied to every video, application, and chapter enables both instructors and students to track progress and get immediate feedback. With results feeding into a powerful gradebook, the assessment program helps instructors identify student challenges early—and find the best resources with which to help students.
- An assignment calendar allows instructors to assign graded activities, with specific deadlines, and measure student progress.
- Class Prep collects the very best class presentation resources in one convenient online destination, so instructors can keep students engaged throughout every class.
MyDevelopmentLab comes from a trusted partner with educational expertise and a deep commitment to helping students, instructors, and departments achieve their goals.
- Pearson supports instructors with workshops, training, and assistance from Pearson Faculty Advisors–so you get the help you need to make MyDevelopmentLab work for your course.
- Pearson gathers feedback from instructors and students during the development of content and the feature enhancement of each release–to ensure that our products meet your needs
