An amazing course. I wasn't expecting much when I enrolled a few weeks ago but the more I studied and watched the lessons I was surprised with so many great tips and resources to understand and become a better learner. I found it funny that there were some techniques that I already use but have never thought on them. I reccomend this course to anyone, either in high school or college, or even as preparation for other courses in Coursera. Why don't they teach this in elementary schools?

This is not a casual course to accomplish rather a boon for those who have a false image for themselves that they cannot be improved. In all my honesty , this course in really a must do for all who want to make themselves better and also for those who want to make themselves the best.

At last , I would truly thanks the whole Coursera community for introducing such courses for us and a big thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for being such nice and great instructors.

This course has been awesome. Since starting this course, i see the practical application in all most every life situation. For example, when i feel overwhelmed by a task, i have learned to take time out from the task at hand and do something totally unrelated then go back the task later, and yes, it does seem to magically appear more doable. i will also break the task up into smaller tasks and that works well.

This course is great for everyday life!!!! Thank you, Thank you Thank you

It's a really interesting and never thought about kind of learning that I received from this course. In fact i started using the learnings to even continue and complete this course, which I thought would be left in mid way. This is really effective and i would definitely recommend this over spending 20 hours on any netflix best rated series.. its not because Netflix isn't good, but this course is better and its needed for you to stay in the game.. the game of Life.. Happy learning...

After taking this class, I realized I wasted my whole life in learning new skills and left out many skills behind believing that I can not learn or I do not have that particular gene or something to learn those new skills.

Now, after taking this course, I am feeling like- make a list that I ever wanted to learn and start it - And I am pretty much confident now that I will excel. I am more confident than ever.

Thanks to Coursera and Barbara for removing those bad zombies out of my mind.

very helpful to me. It seems I learned for a long time with bad learing habits which did make me hard to reach the targets. I didn't realise that the bad habits and concepts really make my learning ineffective everyday until I took this course. And the skills introduced and experence sharing in the insteresting interviews not only help me how to learn effectively but also let me wanna pick up more subjects which I once gave up. Yes, wanna try the learning skills in the new challenges.

The course was very well structured. It was very good for explaining the science behind the various techniques and learning challenges. This allows for a better understanding and context of the reason for the technique working or the origin of the challenge.

The topics were very engaging and digestible.

I would recommend this as a compulsory first step for anyone who intends to pursue any type of educational course as a foundational tool to enrich and get a better return on learning.

This course helps me understand how brain deals with memory, learning, and procastination.I have realised the methods I was using all these years are not effective enough and too passive. It gives me lots of new ideas how I should adjust my way of learning German and how to make the new knowledge store better. The pomodoro technique, switching between the focused and tight mode and the free and loose mode, is definitely useful for my job which involves lots of writing and creativity.

Great course, helps a lot to develop learning practice. even though I do not have put them all into practice anymore can see my mind accepting with good idea. Many thanks to Barbara Oakley and all of you who help me with this course, from the Good Doctors to the production and editing of videos in Portuguese that helped me a lot to complete the course. And the vision of being a free course with this helping many people around the World, Again Thank you very much and God bless you all

It gave me a lot of new information about learning and not only. Information about procrastination and pomidorro technique was surprisingly interesting for me. Becase as a big procrastinator I thought that İ was born this way and cannot change anything.

It is interesting to test the technique "start hard jump easy", because I always tried to finish easy task first in order to feel myself self confident and to finish as much item as possible quickly leaving lot of time for hard tasks.

Learning how to learn should be a mandatory subject at school and continue throughout college and/or personal life. It's instrumental to understand how our brain works, the strategies to take advantage of its fantastic capabilities and also be aware of its limitations. All these concepts are explained in a clear and succinct way in the course. They are now part of my life toolbox. Totally recommended!

Thanks to Barbara, Terrence and all the Coursera team that made this possible

This Learning how to Learning is strongly recommended for any type of people who still breathing and looking for improve anything in their life, general speaking , every one of us. It will help you understand how your brain work, how to learn the effective way, how to do tests/exam and get with maximum result. All of the materials are backed and support by research of neuroscience. Both instructor are best of these neuroscience field. And lasting you will have some laugh. Have fun^^

i cannot find words to express my gratitude for this course. as a millennial, sometimes i forget how lucky i am to live in a time where educational content like this can be so easily accessible, not to mention, free of charge. Thank you Barbara and team for making this possible. As a working professional, i feel very empowered to use the knowledge i learned in this course to better my expertise and learn to enjoy the learning process of anything that i come across in the future.

I think this is one of the best courses anybody could take. It is truly helpful to learn effectively and efficiently, and ever since I have taken this course (and read the book before taking the course), my learning capability has been skyrocketed.

I think every student should take this course. This would help tremendously in the studies/learning progress, as no matter how hard you work, if you work the wrong way then it is a waste of time and effort(and you get minimal result).

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Barbara Oakley is an excellent presenter with right speed and right amount of content per slide. The metaphors and analogies used by her in the videos have not only made the entire course light weight yet deep rooted in my memory but also taught me the best way to make slides to keep the viewer glued.

It is such a pleasure to complete the course waiting eagerly for the next videos and now finishing the next course "Mindset".

Wish her goodluck and hope to enrol in her future courses.

Learning without knowing how to learn is much more like getting into water without knowing how to swim !!

That what you're going to learn in here and that what they don't teach you in schools

This course is a must for not only the students but also for any learner who is concern about getting better in life and learn more effectively and passionately

I wish I knew half of the principles and learning facts discussed in this course earlier in my studying journey

but it's never too late

Simply a great course with tools that help you understand not only how to improve learning, but also how can you improve your life through making yourself conscient about the skills, fears, competences, and external factors involved in your every single activity you're facing. With charming professors and inspiring testimonies this course has the potential of being life changing opportunity to know better about yourself and to start pursuing things you've been always wanting to do.

Actually the course is really great , the way that you are introducing the information is perfect , it helped me a lot, it changes in my mind and i am sure it will change more on the long run

Big respect to the instructors Dr. Barbara and Dr. Sejnowski , so proud that i meet you( on the course) :) every session , i really would like to meet you face to face to thank you a lot for your effort

May Allah reward you for that :)

Wish you both success

Thanks Coursera for such a great course

My first Coursera effort. Seriously, seriously impressed! Dr Oakley doesn't just have practical techniques, her delivery is imbued with a warmth and humanity that will encourage students round the world to listen up and take notice. I found myself thinking that she and Prof Sejnowski are outstanding ambassadors for their sciences as well as the academic culture they hail from. Makes you want to be a part of it!!

Thanks guys - I will rate and review far and wide as much as I can.

I never thought about the technique of learning and memorization until I started learning programming. A very good course with a deep description of everything that will help you learn better and more efficiently. I consider the course mandatory before starting to learn something new. I'm sure most of us have never been taught how to study properly. Thank you to everyone who has made an effort to create these wonderful courses! Go through it, you won't regret it. Good luck to all!

Many tips and strategies, which combine to make a great toolkit to enhance learning and thinking.

I have used many of these ideas previously. I accumulated them over a long life of learning, but this course distills most of what I've learnt about learning, plus adds some extra bits. It is well presented in a short course that I would recommend to learners / parents of learners, at all stages of learning.

I wish I'd had access to this 40+ years ago!

Thanks Barbara, Terry and friends!

I never even realized I did not know how to actually learn and how to properly study. When you get labeled as a 'gifted' kid early on in life, you think you're invincible because it's easier to understand things. But if you don't actually LEARN how to learn, this is only sustainable for so long before you realize you can't keep up. I didn't even realize how bad my study habits were before taking this course so that I can better learn how to code. Thank you so, so much to Barbara!

I think that was one of the most interesting courses I have taken. I have fun watching those videos and doing the tasks, it helps me identify my problems with learning and deal with them to be more productive. Every concept was explained in a simple way that every person will understand. I think that every course should be like that. I advise everyone taking the course to watch the optional interviews. They are very helpful and give us true stories from which we can learn a lot.

Through this course, I learned about working and long-term memory mechanisms.

I find out that my style of studying in 20 years of education (from grade 1 to half of my PhD.) was inappropriate.

Now, I know about the power of recall, deliberate excercises and of course a full night sleep before an important test. I think if I knew these facts when I was at highschool my life would be different.

I wish healthy joyful life for prof. Oakly and Senjowsky, as they change rest of my life.

Very useful to learn the main effective techniques to learn and quickly grasp why they work. Definitely many tips and tricks that I'm gonna use in my life, either for personal learning and for professional one.

These tips and tricks are useful regardless of the subject. If you wanna learn how to play the piano, how to juggle, what the fundamentals of art history in the XVIIe, what are the capital cities of each country of the world or basically… anything else, this MOOC's for you!