MyVirtuals
Pearson’s Developmental Simulations
The decision-making simulations enabling the realistic application of the life span stages in human development. Included within Revel® Child Development and Lifespan Development products.
Supporting student learning around behavioural development
MyVirtuals are developmental, decision-making simulations, offering your students the opportunity to make decisions over the course of a person’s lifetime.
From birth and early childhood, through adolescence, early adulthood and adulthood, the simulations bring key principles and fundamental concepts from theory to life. They also help students foster a deeper understanding of the course of development in humans.
Through the virtual chronological experience of raising a child, MyVirtuals simulations demonstrate essential concepts for a person’s human development across the life span.
A real-world depiction of the concepts and theories of human development
Realistic scenarios address contemporary issues and include a diverse range of side characters. These characters represent the breadth of people we encounter in the real world.
Within each scenario, students choose from a range of responses, and make decisions across the different stages of life. The simulations prompt them to apply developmental principles and find out more about the concepts of life span development.
Just like in the real world, students’ parenting decisions and life choices are combined with environmental and behavioural factors.
At the start of the program, as well as randomly throughout process, your students will take quizzes to determine and shape the development of the virtual character.
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About the authors of MyVirtuals
Frank Manis, University of Southern California
Dr Manis is the creator of MyVirtualChild and MyVirtualLife. As a child development instructor for over 40 years, Dr Manis is passionate about promoting the use of technology to facilitate student learning. The major focus of his research has been on identifying the differences in cognitive profiles among children with reading difficulties.
Nancy Miodrag, California State University, Northridge
Dr Miodrag is an associate professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Development. Her research interests include psychological stress, health, and well-being in mothers and their children with various intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is also interested in the psycho-educational techniques used to intervene to reduce stressors and promote adaptive coping in these families.
Julie Taylor-Massey, Colorado State University
Dr Julie Taylor-Massey is part of the senior teaching faculty in the Department of Human Development and Family Studies. Her speciality is normative individual and family developmental functioning from birth to death. Her interests include adolescence and early adulthood, the influence of technology on well-being, and online pedagogy. Since 2010, Dr Taylor-Massey has taught exclusively online and SES in pedagogical best practices for course design and delivery that help students effectively learn in the online format.