This is an absolutely fantastic course in my opinion. I just realized that I have been utilizing extremely bad habits in my studying for so many years. The concepts that I found to be of great help to me are chunking, interleaving, and also the types of human memory (long-term memory, and working memory) as well as how our brains work in relation to procrastination. I highly recommend everyone who is taking the course, to make neat notes for each week, I found this advantageous in retaining much of the content. Peace & love

The course was well designed. I liked the structure of the course. Due to my procrastination problem, I enroll for the coursera courses now and then, but middle of the session I drop out from each of the course. This is the first in Coursera that retained my interest to finish the course. I loved the concept of Pomodoro, Chunking techniques that have been taught in this course. I'm looking forward to apply these techniques not only in my professional career but also in my life-long learning process. Happy learning everyone!

I'm a dyslexic and ADHD person. You can imagine how much I suffer from learning and memorizing things and I always suffer from studying and making exams and I hate going to school. This course taught me how to overcome my problem in studying and to memorize things easily It makes me more confident with myself. I found myself going thru the material easily and confidently doing the practice exams. I wish I had this course before. I'm 63 years old. Thank you for the marvelous course. I definitely will recommended to my kids

This course was a big learn and life changer. before taking this course I was unable to learn anything due to a not working pituitary. This course learned me how to be able to learn antything. Even better, this course does not only how to learn, but also how to learn very efficient. So now I'm able to follow multiple online courses at a time, thanks to this wonderfull course.

I would strongly recommend this course to everybody, especially to those that have problems with concentration or do not have much time for learning.

This was such a helpful course! It gave me tactical tools to change my perspective on learning. I'm much more confident in my study skills, and have awesome tools to combat procrastination and ineffective study habits, and build awesome new ones to help me actually hold onto the new knowledge that I'm studying to pursue a career change. Huge thank you to the instructors and Coursera for offering this for free, as well. I will definitely be reading and learning more from Barbara Oakley. 5 stars from a grateful student :)

I've always had trouble procrastinating on classwork and studying for tests. After taking this course it really gave me some powerful mental tools that I've never known about, my favorite is the Pomodoro technique and focusing on the process rather than the product. This course really has helped me with my procrastination and has actually helped me look forward towards studying. I highly recommend this course to anyone that is looking to fix their procrastination habits and looking for new effective ways to learn subjects.

Just Exceptional. The sincerity of both professors to provide us all the learning skills and techniques that helped to become who they are was done in a very skillful and comprehensive manner. I wish I would have found this course a bit earlier so that I could have used it during undergrad, and taken out all those preconceptions away about learning things that I felt would be out of my scope in general. Anyhow, better late than never as I always say. Thank you for this, and looking forward to taking more MOOCs as this one.

I highly appreciate having the opportunity of taking this course. The concepts and techniques I have learnt so far have helped me really improved in my University life as a student and in my work as an En glish teacher. I have taken so long to be able to finish it, but I have also taken my time to double check the video-lessons and take notes, so I can better understand. My purpose is to complete the whole course because I do not know what other wonderful experiences are awaiting to be discovered. Thank you very much.

I enjoyed this course very much. Professors are passionate about learning, have a genuine interest in teaching and are cool. You will have a good time taking this course. It's packed with a lot of resources with a lot of useful and interesting information but you will not feel the time pass by if you want to improve your learning skills and want to know more about the whole learning process, which is very interesting. Highly recommended for everyone! What you will learn here is useful in every field for your entire life.

Learning How to Learn is without a doubt the most pleasant, interesting, and useful online course I've taken to date. Both instructors are engaging and lively, the material is presented in straightforward and clever manners, and it achieves the balance between technical background information and practical techniques.

I would heartily recommend Learning How to Learn to anyone from high school students looking to improve their grades through to adult learners returning to education after an absence and EVERYONE in between.

I have been struggling with my studies since I got admitted into university but couldn't find out where the root of all problems is. Now, I have come to know about how my brain works and how it can be managed to do things. I wish I will be able to apply what I have learned in this course. Believe it, it was worthy of time to waste in such a course that won't help you to earn your payscale directly but it will bring a major mind-shift to believe in yourself when you will get to know where you lacked and what do you need.

I found this course for my 12-year-old daughter. She is starting to get classes that depend on tests for the grade, and she was really unclear how to study effectively. I decided to take the course also, and my 6-year-old son, who is highly motivated, participated with me. I got some key benefits from the course, particularly the pomodoro technique, which I am using. The side benefit to doing this "as a family" is that it gives us a vocabulary and common experience around which to discuss learning concepts together.

This course is fantastic. The professor in this lecture gave me a better insight into the brain's function and how to learn more effectively. I have been watching numerous videos talking about this problem. However, None of these videos is as enjoyable as this course. Spending a whole week, I learned the correct way to activate the two brain modes and interweave them efficiently. Even though it is still sometimes annoying and hard, I hope shortly, I can master this and be able to reap more fruitions in academic thrive.

Really helpful, while learning the course, I recalled of many words that my teachers told me when I was at school. Such as look at the last few questions (the most difficult ones) first during an exam, and recall what I've learnt after each course, they were really helpful, but back then I couldn't understand very clearly so didn't try hard on them. But now I know, and I become more confident with these 'tricks' and become more willing to control my learning process to make it more efficient and enjoyable.

Thanks a lot.

This course is amazing! It really explains the topic in depth and you learn a lot from both professors! This course also provides a lot of practical information and you know that it's evidence based. It's definitely worth the time and effort to watch all the videos and I recommend this course to everyone who wants to learn something. More important: This course is mainly focused on academics but it also links the knowledge to everyday learning (skills like cooking great dishes, learn a sport or any other skill really)

Great info, I also read the book to further interleave the learning. In the future I will definitely use techniques presented in this course. One little point of annoyance, for most of the tests, the multiple choose questions contain very clearly right and very clearly wrong answers. In my opinion this makes the effectiveness of taking those tests much less. I think this is a missed opportunity since this course itself speaks so highly about the value of serious test taking. But overall I'm very happy with the course.

I felt it was mainly fun, and I did talked about the principles and interviews I've seen during the course, so I guess something about the course works! :)

Also, It helped me understand some of my behaviors (for good and bad) .

There are a few things that were a bit...well...made me go somewhere else for a while during the course:

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It took me a while to get used to the lectures tempo. For me - they are a bit too slow.

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In many cases - the answers for the question were long. From time to time - It was really exhausting.

Through this course I learned about the mechanics of the learning, techniques for learning better and also how to retain what we learn in our long-term memory.

The course covers a wide range of topics such as procrastination, different thinking models, the importance of physical activity for your brain among many others.

The course has the contribution of experts and scientists from different domains which I believe that contributes for the overall quality of the program.

I highly recommend everyone to take this course!

Good afternoon! I am eternally grateful to the authors of the course and all those involved in it. This is the best thing I've learned lately, I wholeheartedly recommend it to everyone. The course is very exciting and useful, it is literally an instruction to the brain. Awesome! Special thanks, Barbara Oakley she is so friendly that it cannot leave you indifferent. Dr. Terrence SejnowskiThank you for your invaluable knowledge. Thank you for helping people from different countries to be kinder and smarter. Thank you!

I found it an amazingly well organised course. It cut no corners. A spade was called a spade. Most things we know but it's good when its re-enforced and we are made to face reality - illusions of competence. We fool ourselves so easily. Its hard hitting and extremely beneficial. I particularly liked the palace technique. It took me a while to actually understand but it was quite astounding how it worked once put into practices.

It was a great course and I am glad I got so much out of it. Thanks to Babara and Terence.

This is a must-take course for any adult learner about to undertake any significant learning activity. In my humble opinion it should be required material in every degree course and I would not be exaggerating to say that completing it has changed my life. As an adult learner with ADHD, I found it useful in particular to enhance my self awareness and understanding of how my brain works. Although I had heard of pomodoro and anki cards before - I did not have a technical understanding of WHY they worked until now.

The course is very intrinsic in its teaching and i would most definitely recommend to nay student starting out either in their academic career or simply considering one in the near future. Even if it might not be education purposes, it can also be for job as it was in my case. Unfortunately, it was too late on my end, but I look to making changes in the future as advised by my peers in this course. It will teach the reason why slowing down is very important and vital to undertaking as well as mastering of concepts.

Absolutely game changing stuff! I always was curious about figuring out a set of principles that will make my learning more efficient. I used to avidly read the Learning on Steroids material by Scott Young. Although I had known much of the stuff taught on this course, I never had the right structure to put all this in perspective. The much-needed structure is what this course gave me. I'm currently a broke entrepreneur. But, when the time comes, I want to buy this course as a token of thanks. Thank you, Coursera!

It is true that there is a broad applicability of the concepts presented in the videos. Using scientific data and concrete examples to illustrate points, the instructors truly delivered.

As a medical student, I find this course really worth investing into. I still am amazed of the things I've learned about learning. I am surprised at how much time and energy I've wasted before studying inefficiently. No wonder I'm burned out time and again. It was delightful embarking on this ship. Thank you very much!

Highly recommend to take this as your first MOOC course. Very easy to understand, all topics discuss are presented in an easy, painless manner. The professors have very informative and brief video lectures, and taking the questions and quizzes right after the lectures is very helpful in staying engaged without using up too much of your time. This is coming from a person who has had a hard time with going to school, so the result is very good. Hopefully the other classes are as good and to the point as this one was.