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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

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.

DP

Aug 13, 2021

A great course for learners to know more about how to learn and give them a fresh perspective about learning and being successful in life. A great sequel after the renowned MOOC Learning How to Learn.

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By Kim W

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Jun 27, 2020

Covers a lot but strangely was so spot on for where I am at this moment in my life. I found it very helpful and will be implementing many of the suggestions.

By Mike B

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May 22, 2019

Packed full of insights and techniques about ways to approach learning and change in your life, both personally and professionally. Fun and easy to follow.

By SARUN P

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Apr 17, 2020

This would be a good class for a person who don't open mind for a new things to learn. For me I learn many things and really inspire me to start doing it.

By JUEGO, A J P

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Jun 5, 2020

It's a great help for me especially at the time that we are adjusting in the new normal for education, and everything else causes by the pandemic.

By Deleted A

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May 8, 2018

Very Insightful. I would recommend take the course really slowly and actively asking yourself the breakthrough quotes, like what is your mission?

By Cheryl B

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Aug 18, 2018

This is my first course through Cousera. I found it engaging, the information was useful, the pace was good. I look forward to other courses.

By Ritisha S

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Nov 18, 2020

It's a great platform to know what you do and why you do. I really loved this course. This course has changed my way of thinking towards life.

By Deleted A

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Jul 6, 2020

Well, It is a well organized course. Instructor of this course well explained every single aspects. I enjoyed a lot this course. Thank You :)

By Amal D

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Dec 4, 2022

I learn new knowledge in this course and it's very interesting. The ideas in this course are very well explained. Thank you for the teacher.

By sagar c

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May 29, 2020

It is an amazing course with a great video editing however in some of the videos I found the animation sound between the video was irritable

By Punyaporn T

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May 15, 2020

I attain a lot positive thinking to change my self as well as desire everyone to learn this course gain a good thinking to change your life.

By Margaret M

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Apr 5, 2020

It is a very useful course, well put and there is a good effort put into it.

The main instructor Barbara Oakley seems a caring teacher :)

By Mudit M

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Jul 14, 2020

It's a really great course for all those who are looking at new ways to learn and are trying to figure out their career path as a whole

By Mohamed H

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Nov 19, 2019

Short BUT Gold

Very important and Valuable notes included.

Now, I'm sure I can go better with my life.

I'll keep learning to death.

Thanks.

By Maria S

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Apr 3, 2022

It is very informative and interesting course. Its my 1st course that i have copleted on coursera . I learned a lot from this course.

By Poornachandra P

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Apr 5, 2020

it was great experience learning and understanding potential of aperson.it broadened my perspectives about learning and development.

By Nichole M

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Mar 27, 2020

This was a great stepping stone for me to open my mind to not only learning new skills but accessing my old skills to help me do so.

By Victoria N

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Aug 27, 2017

Very engaging! The short segments really help in managing time and the progression of learning in this course. Great instructors !

By Preetaya G

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Aug 2, 2020

Good content. Few places I found things being repeated by just change of words however it was a good course and motivating lessons.

By Manan C G

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May 20, 2020

Amazing course, Some terrific eye-opening concepts with best course material and super friendly and understandable course teachers.

By Fenichi L

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Dec 21, 2020

This is a good course. It would be better if the editing is more up to date and if the delivery of the instructor is more natural.

By Ahmed M E

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Apr 2, 2020

I found it covered many aspects to help me and any body to get attention that he can do more than he expected from him self.

Thanks

By Kasturee P

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May 18, 2020

Got to know about many new aspects of learning, focused vs diffused learning, Pi model of learning. Barb is a great MOOC teacher!

By Detthana S

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Apr 23, 2020

Useful to an extent. The best thing is this is very good at setting milestones so I guarantee you will not be tired of learning!

By Sanket C

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Apr 20, 2020

Course content has been satisfactory.

However, i now believe that one should pratice and implement the teachings to get results.