This course is such a helpful course for those who want to delve in deeper in cognitive psychology while learning new ways in how to learn more efficiently. It's a great course and the instructors are the type of professors you can easily get along with. It's an easy four week course and I highly recommend this as a first course for the first timers as it will be a good reminder that learning isn't just about reading books or making notes. It's also how you put that knowledge in your life and how to deeply ingrain it in one's mind for a long time.

This is very useful course prepared and conduct by Dr. Barbara, it absolutely changes my perspective of learning and put me in new path to learning, I do recommend this course and training to all of you with any ages, seniority level or education background.

Prior to this training, I almost give-up new training and skills and prepare myself for going to sidewalk in terms of updating my skills and learning objective, but I am more confidence that I can learn new skills, knowledge and catch-up.

Thanks to this training and Dr. Barbra, God bless you.

I highly recommend this course, not only you benefit from learning new technique, but you also know you are on the right path, you get inspired from people interviewed in this course, how they learned and always went after learning, they never lost their goal and found a way to learn what they set their mind to, finally, it made me really t always learn till the rest of my life. what is great about this course, that instructors support their concepts with scientific evidences, this reinforce your willpower to learn and improve your understanding.

It was such a pleasure to be in Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski's MOOC. I feel sad that I've finished the course, but I have already put holds on Dr. Oakley's books and currently reading one. The way she writes and the way she lectures is the same - engaging, funny, and thought-provoking. Thank you for this course, I have already begun to change my thoughts as advised in one of the lessons, and it has been doing wonders for me every day. The techniques mentioned here are applicable to everything that I do and not just in the classroom. Thanks again!

This course was one of those life-changing moments for me. At the end of my first degree, I felt that the learning methods I used were not effective enough, and I wanted to know better. I stumbled upon this course and the rest is history. It really changed my learning, and I feel much more confident now about my abilities and about my future learning. I would also like to thank the instructors, and professor Barbara Oakley in particular, for providing a supportive learning environment, that inspires the students to believe in themselves and grow.

This course is so intriguing. As a Psychology major during my undergraduate studies, the content presented in it really brought me back to what I've been learning in my courses. In addition to this, the analogies that the professors used to illustrate examples of concepts really made it easier for me to grasp the content of the course. It really rocks. I would absolutely recommend it to everyone who want to take an online course or just want to improve the way they learn. Go Coursera! Go McMaster University! Go University of California San Diego!

It is Must do course for all to understand how well we can harness the power of brain to learn better and effectively any subjects.

They have given lots of practical and interesting suggestions to improve our learning. They are so simple techniques that we do sometime unknowingly or saw someone doing it, but we ignore it most of the time.

Now that we can see what they do actually to our learning , we ca kind of hack the mid to learn the stuff we need.

I am still doing the course and finding it interesting .. i will surely recommend it to others .

I would like to thank Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for putting together such a wonderful class.

The great techniques put forth from test taking to tips on avoiding procrastination, to the memory palace for remembering lists and focusing on process and not on results were were very well put forward in this class.

I am a 60 year old adult, who has lost complete faith that she can read and learn. This class has given me courage to move on and has given me a great sense of accomplishment. And has also taught me a lot along the way.

Amazing course

It's tips on memory, how to beat procrastination, and the use of focused and diffuse attention modes, as well as the diferences between working memory and long term memory and how they work, without forgetting the best ways of learning and the not so effective common practices called illusions of competence really were very helpful ideas that I'm decided to review them in spared days of the week to best retain them in my mind

Thanks to the team that made this possible

and a special thanks to Barbara and Terrence.

Cheers from Brazil :)

It helps me to understand that you don't have to be smart to learn but it's learning by using effective ways. This course helps me to understand why procrastination happened and how we can resolve this. The content is extremely easy to understand and the videos are short and simple. Each week's about 40 minutes commitment and you are good to go. There are also extra reading and material given for us to take a deeper understanding in a scientific way that can help us learn effectively. Thanks to this, I now know how should I approach my studies

From where to begin,Well this course by far exceeded my expectations. It changed my way of thinking (gradually not suddenly) and the way I receive things.It helps me see things from a big picture like for example if you're struggling with material , it is not the end of the world , you just have a good sleep and come back tomorrow in which you would find the material much easier . It helps you tackle procrastination and memory issues and addresses you with simple yet power techniques you can master subject.Thank you Barabara,I loved her so much

I am so happy I learned about this course after listening to Dr. Barbara Oakley interview with Matt Bodnar at the podcast The Science of Success. I am a reentry, transfer student about to start one of my biggest challenges, a BS degree in Cognitive Science with emphasis in Neuroscience. This course provided me with research based techniques that I am sure will be extremely helpful and positively impact my future grades and study life. Thank you Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for this fascinating course. I highly recommend it!

Ce cours devrait être suivi avant tout autre. Il donne les bases essentielles du fonctionnement du cerveau et permet à chacun de repérer, d'expérimenter de nouvelles approches neuro-économiques beaucoup plus efficaces. Ce cours m'est doublement utile :

En tant qu'apprenant, il est très agréable à suivre et révèle nos tendances ou nos habitudes peu efficaces.

En tant que concepteur de formation e-learning, il permet de concevoir des séquences d'apprentissage efficientes. Je remercie chaleureusement T. Sejnowski, F. Crick et B. Oakley.

This course is very useful and practicable despite of some obvious things at the beginning and not very useful 'additional videos'. I have already started to apply the knowledge I received during this wonderful course and I will, certainly, pass this knowledge to my relatives and friends to enhance their ability to learn and be smarter. Thank you very much Barbara and Teren! Thank you very much entire team who took part in organization of the course and definitely big 'thank you' to Coursera for such marvelous opportunities in online studying!

This was a very good course. I think it is accessible to a very wide audience ranging from high schoolers to doctorates. Even people with high education and a lot of studying behind can learn studying tips from this course.

The presentation is geared more towards wider audiences. However, the more reading -sections and references are exceptionally well written and detailed, and provide a great starting place for those willing to delve more deeply in the subject.

I warmly recommend this course to anyone wanting to improve their learning skills!

As explained in the final videos by the instructors, all our learning efforts in life are focused largely on the product of learning rather than on the process of learning. This course fills this gap and provides opportunity to take a step back and relate to what your process of learning has been what you have been missing. I am sure after completing this you will walk out with new tools, better understanding of your own learning methods and apply more consciously and confidently what you learn here in improving your PROCESS of your learning!

This course is very informative and practical - you can start improving your learning immediately after watching the first video. In fact, the first impression was that the course was very easy and it presented many obvious things. But in hindsight, after revising all the material, trying to summarise it in the final project and understanding what amount of work must have been done for this course to appear... I can only say that this course is remarkable. Huge gratitude to Barbara Oakley, Terry Sejnowski, and the Learning How to Learn Team!

" Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects ", Course has changed my perception with regard to Learning and thrown light on various aspects namely Focus & Diffuse modes; Pomodoro Technique; Procrastination & Memory; Understanding; Illusion of Competence; Chunking; Team Work; Imposter Syndrome; Metaphor & Analogy; Test taking Tips etc.

Henceforth, I will apply the techniques in a systematic and planned way to crack the tough subjects.

Suggest the Teaching fraternity to pursue this course for better teaching.

This is a really helpful course. I think it's easy to assume that you already know the optimal strategies for learning effectively, but this is probably not the case for most people. This class will teach you those strategies.

The instructors are pretty wonderful, and make digesting the material easy and fun (I suppose, being experts in learning, they would tend to be good at teaching :) ). Since taking the course, I've integrated its techniques into my life, like the pomodoro and spaced repetition (among other strategies). Highly recommend.

It was a great experience learning how to learn. Thanks this course I found where I am doing wrong and actually I´am learning new things easier and time after time I repeat the information that I have studied some years ago. I used to consider the fact that I am interested in many different things as a problem and all these years I was searching to find something I really like most to succeed but thanks to Barbara I learned that you can start learning anything even the things you are not good at, just by efficient study. Thank you very much!

An exceptional course. I have spent the last 15 years reading and applying academic papers, across lots of different applications and disciplines, so have never doubted my intelligence. But my memory..? I thought it didn't work, that it was broken. But, this course has - revealed to me that I just wasn't using the right methods - taught me how to apply those methods - explained why they work - shown me how to practise them - enabled me to retain them. I can say, the course will transform my life for the better. Thank you Barb and Terry!

I love this course so much. I thought I already knew things but this course have widened my perspective and taught me a lot of thing that I've been doing wrong before. Professor Barbara is such a warm and friendly instructor. Dr Terry is also a very informative teacher. I love all the illustrations (zombies, pinball machine analogy, etc.). I've learned so much from this course and I am considering taking their 2nd course, Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential. Thank you for developing this course.

Thank you dear Instructors for making a surrounding where I can learn, explore and most importantly learn how to learn. I would like to appreciate Coursera for providing such an extraordinary environment which help me come across courses which enhances my potential and make me happier as ever. I want to express gratitude to the entire team which makes this course possible. Sincere apology for not proving any helpful review which can make this course more productive than it is up to now. I hope you deliver more and more courses such as this.

Amazing course. Barbara is just a fantastic teacher being totally able to transmit the message in a clear and easy way to be understood. This course really helped me to change my view of the learning process.

The content was very useful for me and the imposter syndrome totally applies to me as I've been feeling the fear of the start of a new career and that has just paralyzed me in a certain way. Now, with a different overview of the whole process, I am engaged to start in a new field and I will use all the techniques taught here.

Thank you

What an amazing and beneficial journey this has been! I learned about this course from Anthony Metivier at the Magnetic Memory Method, and checked out Barbara Oakley's A Mind for Numbers as well. The concepts and learning methods outlined in this course and the book are easy to understand and I am already seeing the benefits in my life. The optional material is amazing as well, with thought provoking articles and videos about learning and memory. I will be coming back to Learning How to Learn in order to keep my mind sharp. Thank you!