{"product_id":"the-missing-course-david-gooblar-9780674260382","title":"The Missing Course: Everything They Never Taught You about College Teaching","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"What a delight to read David Gooblar's book on teaching and learning. He wraps important insights into a story of discovery and adventure.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Ken Bain, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat the Best College Teachers Do\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCollege is changing, but the way we train academics is not. Most professors are taught to be researchers first and teachers a distant second, even as scholars are increasingly expected to excel in the classroom. There has been a revolution in teaching and learning over the past generation, and we now have a whole new understanding of how the brain works and how students learn. \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Course\u003c\/i\u003e offers a field guide to the state-of-the-art in teaching and learning and is packed with insights to help students learn in any discipline. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWary of the folk wisdom of the faculty lounge, David Gooblar builds his lessons on the newest findings and years of experience. From active-learning strategies to ways of designing courses to get students talking, \u003ci\u003eThe Missing Course\u003c\/i\u003e walks you through the fundamentals of the student-centered classroom, one in which the measure of success is not how well you lecture but how much your students actually learn. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Warm and empirically based, comprehensive but accessible, student-centered and also scientific. We're so lucky to have Gooblar as a guide.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Sarah Rose Cavanagh, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Spark of Learning\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Goes beyond critique, offering a series of activities, approaches, and strategies that instructors can implement. His wise and necessary book is a long defense of the idea that a university can be a site of the transformation of self and society.\"\u003cbr\u003e--\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An invaluable source of insight and wisdom on what it means to work with students. We've needed this book for a long time.\"\u003cbr\u003e--John Warner, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy They Can't Write\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e David Gooblar\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0674260384\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674260382\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 272\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.19h x 5.51w x 1.02d","brand":"David Gooblar","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44044967346431,"sku":"9780674260382","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_fe3f2531-2f36-49a3-9bd8-0941a9c2a711.jpg?v=1684975961","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-missing-course-david-gooblar-9780674260382","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}