An original, interesting, well organized course that sums up many tools that you can casually find on the internet when you get frustated about not learning effectively what you want to learn. It gives useful tips to become a good learner (boosting your morale!) and a fundamental explanation of our neurological processes. Barbara Oakley is a pleasure to listen to! Thanks!

PS. Just a small criticism to improve: 1) tests little challenging 2) optional interviews are nice but usually generalistic despite being so long

I loved this course. The instructors were so encouraging and positive about what they taught. Thye gave great information but it did not come across as "lecturing." By giving examples from their own lives it made the lessons so much more meaningful and also gave me ways to remember some of the learning lessons shared. I wish I had this course many years ago it would have saved me so much time. I eventually self learned some of the information shared here. Hearing it now was so validating and empowering. Thank you!

This is an essential course to understand a bit clearer how to learn new concepts and more important, how our brain works and how we can maximize its performance.

Both Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski master all the subjects taught, and it's remarkable the passion they show in the different videos and the useful optional interviews.

I can only highly recommend this video to those who want to improve their capabilities regarding memory, thinking or best understanding and brain performance in general.

Great and simple-to-follow course. It teaches you very useful techniques to improve your learning and tackle procrastination, with day-to-day examples and metaphors. Even though part of the course is presented in a simple and intuitive language, some lectures will go deeper in psychological and neuro-scientific explanations to let you better understand how the brain works regarding learning. A must do course for every passionate learner who's willing to optimize his time and effort when approaching new concepts.

It is very helpful topics discussed and lots of new information and new areas of knoweledge. I believe it should be introducred earlier to adults or students as It will be so beneficial to their study for sure as will as old people like me. This topic deserve more deeper learning as it is very vital to gain more knowledge in shorter time and maximizing the value of valuable resource - Time.

Thanks for the tremendous time and effort spent in this material, interview, and other available sources for extra readings

This class will help you think about learning in new ways because (1) it includes recent findings on brain structure and processes (2) it provides concrete tactics for learning more effectively and (3) the teacher grappled with having to rewire her own brain early in career. So, she serves as both proof of the power of the process - and inspiration. She is just so darn NICE. She really wants people to take control of their learning and their lives. By the time the course is over, you just want to make her proud.

I knew that this course was one of the most popular courses in personal development genre but the course surpassed my expectations. I began to think learning as a fundamental activity in my daily life rather than simple techniques when facing exams and tough subjects. There are many books on study methods and how to learn effectively but so far, the lecturer is the only one who was successful in connecting the daily life with learning. I believe my notes that I took over the course will be valuable for some time.

Helps a lot to understand how to learn, how our brain and memory works.

At school we were teach to put a knowlege "with a hammer", forced ourselv reriding meterial again, and again, and again.

Sometimes less is better - more getting away to get new perspective, give brain time to create chunks, to understand all connections better. And practice! Ehen we get some basic idea only practice can do us better.

If you learning anything (and you should to, believe, it satisfaing!), try this course. You will not regret!a

Fantastic course. One should make it mandatory to all university professors and would be great for high students and first year university students. I am planning on integrating it into my teaching and presenting some of the ideas and techniques discussed in the course to my students on each class.

I have tried a few other courses on Coursera and this course seems truly exceptional: the way the material is structured, presented and you can really feel the enthusiasm of the course instructor.

Thank you very much.

As a lifelong learner I found this course invaluable in reaffirming techniques I already employ but also clarifying the science behind how & why we learn. It provides innumerable new insights & techniques to learn more effectively.

Professor Barbara Oakley is a gem of a Professor and she truly practices what she preaches from the way the material is presented to how we are tested on it.

This was my 1st course here and my plan is that it will pave the way for a binge festival of all the others via Coursera Plus!

The course was amazing and I have learned a lot of new things and techniques that I will use in my future endeavors. Barbra Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and the other contributors through their interviews have shared so many practical usage of skills taught in this course. I recommend that every student or learner must take this course before going for other courses. It will help to learn new materials, concept and also keep that in memory by following the techniques taught in this course. Thank you so much.

Great course! There's so much in here that can help college students, professionals, or lifelong learners on how to better themselves and grasp new concepts or ideas. I'm excited to apply this to future courses on writing, social media, and health. I especially appreciated hearing about the best ways to study and the best ways to retain information -- I've always heard that 10,000 hours of practice was important but this course really laid out why! And gave helpful tips + strategies on how to master a subject.

This course includes many practical tips that are backed by research especially in psychology and neuroscience. I have found the concepts of diffused mode of thinking, illusion of competition, working memory, chunking, Pomodoro, spaced repetition, habit steps, hard start, exercise, social sharing and a good night of sleep very helpful. I'm not a student anymore, but as an engineer in the world of fast-paced technology, I'm confident these concepts will help me keep abreast with new ways of thinking and skills.

Lots of nuggets of good information backed with practical advice about how to implement them to your benefit. The explanations of the learning process also help you understand what you (perhaps) are going through currently in coursework, or in your professional life

Honestly, these teachings should be brought up early in someone's academic career, and most beneficially when someone has taken on an independent learning mindset for maximum effect. Since you're on Coursera, that's probably you, so take this class!

Very helpful. I'd been thinking of myself as a quick learner for years and found it a mere illusion during this course. It points out that my over-learning in a specific area fooled me and hence myself stuck somewhere. The question 'why am i not making any progress along the career path even if I'm learning quickly' now never frustrates me.

This course has more than just pointing out this illusion. Invaluable advice of learning will obviously help me for the rest of my life, at least 40 years as I'm expecting:P

Excellent course, 2016 is going to be a very challenging year form me as I have to perform in new role in my job. And I have enrolled in a one full year course. As I have limited time, I need use my time effectively with better learning techniques. 100% satisfied, I will highly recommend this course to every one as learning is every day job.

Now I am doing physical exercise every day, preparing task lists and more importantly I am using spaced recitation.

Thanks to trainers and the Coursera team. Great job!!!

First course on Coursera I completed all the way. Excellent instructors and very valuable advice. Anyone can benefit from this course, no matter their age, profession, or interests.

Learning about how your mind works was the most valuable thing I gained from this course. It added meaning and context to all the learning techniques that were explained, so that everything made sense. This is also a very well researched course. All the information presented is backed up by numerous references to scientific papers.

This course is really amazing. Even though I haven't implemented all the tips. I will try to do it. The course told me a lot of interesting tips and some of them maybe I've implemented in the past and it worked, but I haven't realized that it is amazing and I should do that again. The teacher Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski nailed the way they present the materials so that even after some weeks of skipping the courses, I can still recall the materials. This is one of the best courses i ever learned.

Wow ! That was a hell of a course ! Thank you so much for the hard work Barb Oakley, Terry Sejnowski and the Learning How to Learn Team, I enjoyed this course from A to Z, I learned so many useful tricks and tools and it already change the way I am doing things in my everyday life. I cannot thank you enough, I will share my thoughts and feelings to people around me so that your work can affect (And I am sure It will) more and more people positively.

Excellent work/quality

High added value

Top spirit

THE BEST !!

I really really love this course i'm dam sure it will change my life as well as gives me a fire wing to fly i am relay glad such a wonderful teacher's teach me as well as host share their real experience.

I wanna to specially thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski who thought me so uniquely. If i'll be coming in US for further studies i will definitely meet both of them and ask for wonderful dinner with me. Thank you so much coursera for such wonderful cources,

with lot's of love....

fare well

It's an amazing course! Teachers are very friendly, it's a pleasure to see them and to listen to them. There's also a lot of great additional information like interviews, articles, books, etc. I've found a lot of new information about learning and I've started to use that information. I feel more confident now and I've started to enjoy the process of learning in a new way. And I've already recommended this course to some of my friends and colleagues!

All in all, it's the best course I've ever been enrolled to!

Merci, j'ai appris à apprendre !

C'est un cours que j'ai pu suivre à mon rythme c'est à dire celui de mon environnement (mon travail, ma famille et ma vie personnelle) j'ai apprécié la progression globale, la diversité des sujets qui tourne autour de l'apprentissage et aussi l'empathie que les professeurs dégagent à leurs étudiants. J'ai eu l'impression de faire partie d'une équipe.

Bravo !

J'ai très envie de suivre le cours "Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential".

This was truly a learning ride. I got to experience many different ways to improve my learning. Not only that, but the course also helped me point out why some of the learning techniques that I have been using don't work(Excessive highlighting is one of them). Besides the regular course material, the optional interviews were revelational. Inspired by Benny Lewis, I have started to learn Spanish. I want to thank the instructors and the people who helped create this brilliant course. Kudos for a job well done.

Terrific! THANK YOU! Awesome! This excellent course outlines from A to Z all you wish you had known about learning before going to school. I really appreciate the vast body of knowledge presented in the course: neuroscience, science, art, psychology, philosophy, writing, humanitarian. This course is a multidisciplinary approach on the topic of learning, not just learning a specific field, but learning in general. Very useful. Highly recommend. My tremendous appreciation to Dr. Barbara Oakley. Happy learning!

This is a great course! it is a very good option to gain life long learning tools. Besides, it was very useful for me to tackle some learning problems I had, like procrastination or reading problems. It also provides good tips on how to manage your stress before taking a test and on how to improve your learning, all from a scientific basis! I like a lot the lectures of Dr. Barbs Oakley, she is a very good professor. I enjoyed a lot listening to her videos. Thank you team for this good course! Happy Learning!