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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

DI

Oct 30, 2020

Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.

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By Michael E

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Feb 3, 2018

Many words of wisdom from Professor Oakley and Professor Sejnowski. Great course!

By Andrey A

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Nov 26, 2017

Thank you for the course!

It was very engaging and really interesting to me.

Bravo!

By Sharifah N W S

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Feb 14, 2024

really a mindshifting course. great to know how to uncover your hidden potential

By Prachita

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Feb 8, 2022

the expereince was at par with my expectations of the course.

a total mindshift

By Rana M

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Dec 22, 2021

Barbara is a great teacher! And the course is a real incentive to keep learning!

By Sharmin K

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Oct 5, 2020

Thank you so much for this excellent course. I enjoyed very much & learnt a lot.

By KRISTINA M G S

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Aug 23, 2020

Mindshift has open my mind to new possibilities and encouraged me to take MOOCs.

By Benjamin D

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Aug 22, 2020

One of my first MOOC. It encourages me to follow new ones on different subjects.

By Ocky A

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Jul 29, 2020

Very good course and can open your mind to new techniques and self development!!

By Sohan

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Jul 27, 2020

great course for anyone who is looking for a career and expanding their passion.

By Renata G M P

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Apr 25, 2020

This course changed my life. It provides helpful tools for work and casual life.

By Clifford W N

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Apr 25, 2020

This should be the benchmark of what a MOOC should be. It is delivered superbly.

By Nancy

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Dec 17, 2018

Amazing Course.. Worth every second of your time. BIG thanks to the instructors.

By Gilbert D

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Jun 28, 2018

Excellent course ... removes obstacles to your potential and abilities to learn.

By Maria S

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Sep 25, 2017

Informative, very easy to comprehend, practical, concentrated, Barbara is a star

By Christian L G

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Nov 12, 2022

An engaging and effective way of learning, self-improvement, and mind-shifting.

By Michał S

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Dec 4, 2020

Great course, motivating, inspiring, lots of fantastic and actionable insights.

By Ambika K

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Aug 16, 2020

It's awesome. Thank you Barbara Oakley for your wonderful effort. Keep growing.

By Graziela H d S

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Jul 18, 2020

Great course, give us a lot of knowledge and help us to discover our potential.

By vaibhav s

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Jul 7, 2020

Very good mooc designed as the quize i like, it motivate me to learn new thing.

By Rafi R

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Jun 20, 2020

i really enjoy while taking this course and i feel better to understand my self

By ARRIESGADO, Z V

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Jun 6, 2020

This MOOC really helps me to improve and know myself better. Thank you so much!

By Jonabelle d C

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Jun 5, 2020

Worth the time! Engaging and carefully planned course. I enjoy every bit of it!

By Dina. M

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May 29, 2020

One of the best courses you can take. will definitely add to your life.........

By Alifia

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May 21, 2020

So far is good, I can understand at all and the english is very familiar for me