I'd give it 10 stars if I could! Only 4 weeks to getting a deep dive into, not only how we learn on a habitual and neurological level, but also tips and proven strategies for combating procrastination, stress, and getting stuck in difficult subject areas. I found myself using these strategies immediately during the course, which ultimately helped me retain and complete the course ahead of schedule. I decided to enroll in this course before starting a Software Engineering Professional Certificate on Coursera, and I am so glad I took this course first. I now have proven strategies and tactics for handling stress, imposter syndrome, getting stuck, and a test-taking 'checklist' that will get me through just about every scenario that could derail my studies. I recommend this course to absolutely everyone! From high schoolers looking to improve their grades, to individuals of any age attempting to learn something new, for whatever reason. You will not regret taking this course! It has changed my approach to learning and my belief in my own ability to learn and succeed in my chosen area of study.

If you're on the fence or hesitant, I encourage you to give it a go. The return on time investment is huge. It was a relatively short course, with much of the estimated time encompassing supplementary resources, which I plan to check out over time. I was able to get a strong foundation and learn important information about some of the pillars of cognitive science or learning science. I am now better equipped to think clearly about how learning works and how to orient myself in my studies, including practical applications for working with a particular problem. The range of stories, science, and analogies help to make the material comprehensible and the quizzes are a useful tool to reinforce understanding of the concepts and pave the road for deeper understanding. The speakers also emphasize explicitly and implicitly with their teaching that learning is fun and that is something I will take with me in my studies! Thank you Barb, Terry, and to all of those involved in filming, editing and preparing the course. Also, sincere thanks to Coursera for such an easy to use platform and free access.

It's a useful and interesting course for me.

I had graduated from university for several years.The long I graduated the more I felt hard to learn faster and easier.Too much things to make learning planning procrastinated, and I felt fidget, frustrated, and hard to concentrate.

I tried my best to find a solution (I thought).I spent much more time on learning,but that didn't work.Once I thought learning new things was for those who were young or high IQ.

After I learned Learning How to Learn,I found I was terribly wrong.Firstly, the most important thing is,after I use these methods which the course taught,I find self -confidence feel fun and find learning is interesting.No more frustrated,and no more self-denial. Secondly,learning is a life time work,and the brain is ready for it,I just need to know how to make it prepared.

I recommend this course to those who had left school for years,and now who want to learn more.

I also think this course is useful for students to study much better.

Thank you.

(In the end, sorry for those grammar mistakes,English is not my native langue,I studied on my-own.)

Initially I thought this course is going to be boring just by looking at the title of the course, but I was wrong. Dr. Barbara Oakley, one of the key speaker of this course was a humorous person, and I can see how she put efforts into all her content to prepare for a course that goes straight to the point where you can see direct practicality in real life, and also cut downs all the jargons into duh-duh easy to understand languages. I really enjoy my time in learning how to learn from her, and it totally re-shaped my understanding towards test-taking and what is the actual best way to study. I benefited a lot from this course. Let me end with my favourite remark from this course by Dr. Sejnowski, "You have not truly learned something unless you can teach it to others." To Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski, thanks for your effort in this course. I enjoyed my time learning from the both of you. To those who are struggling with test-taking, I HIGHLY RECOMMEND you to consider this course, and I believe it is going to have a momentum change in how you approach learning and test-taking.

The course has been a gift to me. I was struggling right now from the personal crisis, the feeling of wrong selection of the university, and the inability to achieve something concrete. The course has proved that there is only boundaries inside of our heads. Barbara Oakley herself is an example there is no limits to change life by selecting a new career. I cannot say that I absolutely changed myself after the course because bug changes cannot happen at once, but with no doubts, this course is a great helper for my future changes.I worked on the final assignment for 2 weeks and did a really good job. This is a good feeling of working consistently on something and achieving the results at the end.I have started too many Coursera courses, but this is the first one I am going to finish finally. I will recommend this course to everyone literally because my university was an example of how you SHOULD NOT HAVE study, but this course gives a person an understanding of it and the belief you can provide changes in your life.Thanks for teaching how to learn, Barbara and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski

Simple and elegant course to introduce you to the fundamentals of building good study habits that will enhance your abilities to learn and retain information. Topics are presented and bite-sized pieces at an appropriate speed, mini-test and questions encourage you to go back over newly acquired information, and polls and paragraphs entice you to reflect on your own learning experiences and learning journey. This course is very beginner friendly and serves wonderfully as a resource to put you into a productive and upbeat mindset when dealing with having to study. It does appear to be quite old given the presentation style and graphics, however, this should not deter the learner as the production quality is still fairly well done. The course itself will not teach you any amazing secret techniques to ace all of your exams, but will rather build a solid understanding of how we learn, and some techniques anyone could employ to improve their learning skills. This course will build skills that will help you live a more fulfilling life, if you choose to use them. Definitely worth a shot.

I want to say a special thank you to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for this outstanding course on Learning How to Learn. I have plans to put to practice the material from this course and share the key points with friends, students and associates. I am finding myself already reviewing my notes in my head. My next thing to accomplish today is to order the POMODORO Timer the one that looks like an apple. I also have plans to read more of the additional works on Procrastination and Memory. I feel a new sense of purpose after taking this course. Thanks again to Dr. Oakley, Dr. Sejnowski, UC San Diego, Coursera, and all of the folks behind the scenes that helped make this the number one most popular online course in the world. I am wondering what student number I have out of the 2 million who have already successfully completed this course? Is this the end of an era of Learning How to Learn? Just maybe Watson A.I. will become how we learn in the future classroom, or on online or at home. Add VR to the mix and anything is possible. We are living in very exciting times.

Couldn't imagine better introduction into MOOCs and strongly believe this course should be included into formal education curriculum as obligatory and one of the most important ones. That's because it deals with the very basics of education - what learning is, how do the brain do it, what processes are involved and how to use them properly. Understanding this in the first place would make huge improvement to any further learning no matter the skill.

Course could be valuable either for those starting their education (giving them proper tools, changing perspective, etc.) and more advanced learners (backing some of their intuitions with scientific data, dealing with some misconceptions, consolidating and presenting knowledge in well structured way). It's all done in layman terms and thanks to dr. Oakley in a very kind, fun and supportive atmosphere.

Another good indicator that creators practice what they preach is the design of the course itself - videos served in digestible "chunks", funny and attention keeping quizzes, little reviews, etc. Overall - highly recommended.

Hello,

I am an NLP Master from France. I have developped differents skills in learning or life coaching ( Erickson Hypnosis, Neuro Semantics...) Your course is just a very good one. And for free ???? No excuse for anyone who wants to improve its skills about learning how to learn. If You are interested about the functionnal of the Brain that even the best scientist as never talked about until today, I strongly recommand you to read The Hidden Face Of The Brain written By Dominique AUBIER. You have never read something like that. I sware because she reveald what the Brain is for the Traditions and compare the Crown knowledge and the Scientist Knowledge reuniting those both approach that are usually describe as opposite. This books is probably the best TOP interleaving learning you have never read. Thank you so much for what you did. Maybe once a day we will meet. But if we don't you will shall say to all the people you know Cyrille BIKOUTA-MENGA aka WALLO11.37.04 has followed our course. THANK YOU SO MUCH Mrs OAKLEY. Keep going smiling and sharing all your knowledge.

An extraordinary course. I came here to acquire 20% of the most valuable tools to learn more efficient (which would give me 80% of the result). I've found exactly that and more! Each tool basically is explained via a similar framework, though not always in that order: a problem (e.g. hard to undestand math), a scientific explanation of a reason (e.g. math is abstract => less connections in the brain => harder to recognize patterns), a tested tool as a solution (e.g. find or create easier to grasp physical metaphors which will create required patterns via a "side door").

I've found more, because I have understood that without the consistency and focus no result can be achieved - both for work or learning, for the latter especially. Now I am actively integrating the knowledge from course to my life and can already see the improvements!

My advice - if you want to seriously grow, please take time and patience to REALLY understand the concepts and REALLY integrate them in your life. Basically you'd want to integrate all valuable tools as habits in your brain.

Good luck!

This is by far one of the most rewarding courses I have ever taken! As a psychology major, I really love the way how Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski not only discussed the many useful learning techniques but carefully explained how those methods work neurologically, and I believe understanding the underline neural networks could definitely help us make better use of what we have learned from this course.

My favorite part of this program were actually the optional interviews Dr. Oakley did with many other very accomplished scientists and learners. It was always inspiring getting to know how they learned and what they though would be the best way to learn effectively. Also, I have to admit that the way how this class was presented -- one several-minute video for one small topic -- was in effect quite convenient when I felt the need to review a few concepts. I could simply look at the title of video and recall the points involved in the lecture.

In short, this class was surprisingly rewarding, and I would recommend to anyone who wants to learn better.

This is a great course, I wish I had learned it before or during my university studies and not many years later.

When I started university I had a lot of misconceptions about how to learn in a smart way. High school was pretty easy for me so I never learned how to study hard material, and subsequently I struggled through my years in university. This course is for people who lack the correct learning techniques and habits. Not everyone can force their way through university by sheer brain power - some have more and some have less of it. Understanding how your brain works and how to feed it information the right way, when to give it a rest and which kind of rest, how to leverage your diffused mode of thinking and even how to approach an exam - these are all skills that will help you achieve more, while staying focused and energized.

Even if you're busy, this course is well worth your time, and pretty much all of it can be learned without even looking at the screen, so just download the course and listen to it during your commute or your jogging. Thanks Barbara!

I enjoyed the course very much!! Thank you. Highly applicable to my profession (teaching) and really useful. In a nutshell I learnt about - Learning, thinking, memory, chunking, avoiding procrastination, habits, testing, use of analogy and metaphors, and so much more - which I know will directly impact my ability to learn well and to advise my students on how to learn.The videos were short and not too much of a strain on students like me (working people)I enjoyed Dr. Barbara Oakley's way of presenting every topic - very clear, specific and ofcourse warm and friendly. It was like - she was talking to you!! Dr. Terrence Sejnowski tends to do one main video a week, detailing more on the anatomical aspect of the brain.There are plenty of interviews that you can watch, lots of reading material that was available (though I was selective about it). Its however in my list of 'to read'This course was a very rewarding one that I have taken.I highly recommend this course to all teachers, students and even parents who will understand how 'learning' can be improved.

This course ought to be given in Freshman year of High School and again in Freshman Year of College. Dr. Oakley is a wonderful conduit for this information. In week 4 the ADD brain is discussed with examples of what the world considers brilliant men. Amazing to learn why my learning as well as my daughter's has a "delay". I noticed her brain development when she was a baby. Day after day I'd try and teach her a new word or sign language or body shape in play. Days later after I thought okay, I'll wait and try something new, she'd do the thing I was teaching her days before. I did not understand this at all. For me now, I see how and why when information comes into my mind, it scatters and then days later, I feel a knowledge chunk forming. wow. This is something I wish I knew many years before. But it is good now that I learned so much about learning and how to feel positive about how best to use what I have to learn new things. Great course. I believe everyone should be required to take this course early in life... and then refresher later on.

Great compilation of tools and ideas to help people interested in honing how to learn better. I think if I had this class in my youth my educational future and career would have turned out very differently. I loved the interviews and Dr. Oakley having her and the interviewees' personal life tidbits from their lives and bringing what they know about learning to her course. That really kept me engaged and relaxed.

I loved how the course touched on human emotion, science, and health to teach us how to learn. I was aware and used some techniques- like Anki and the Pomodoro technique- but bringing everything together with other topics like interleaving and chunking made this class eye-opening.

As a student that relies heavily on MOOC and self-teaching, I realize I had a very shaken and insecure outlook on my learning because I have to depend so much on myself to get the info in my head. I'm so ready and confident to continue virtual learning in pretty much any subject including my terror subject: Math!

Thank you, Dr.Oakley and Learning How to Learn Team.

Gorgeous material, which is from my point of view extremely powerful, valuable, as well as very hands-on oriented. I have liked the way very much, how the material is presented and how nice the key ideas are educated in an easy to remember way. Already during the course I practiced a lot of it in real life, e.g. the memory palace technique to visually deposit items I want to remember. Btw and to be honest, w/o the examples in the videos I wouldn't even have dared to be that freaky, funny and evocative with my own memory images on such ;) The only pity thought coming up into my mind is, that I should have had this knowledge 20 years earlier ! Anyhow, happy event never comes too late. I now switch back to master tough subjects of AI Artificial Intelligence, which is currently part of my lifelong learning, and where I made a little step from to the Learning How to Learn course. I'm sure, I speed there up tremendously. Thanks so much to Barb Oakley, Terry Sejnowski, and the Learning How to Learn Team. Kei, Germany

A very good course!

It teaches a lot of techniques for studying and test taking as well as information about how we and our brains work. It talks about how we should be doing things to learn in a more "efficient" manner, how to be less anxious as well as some advice about decision making (don't cram, and have a good night's sleep).

Quite a bit of what is talked here I've seen before in other places. Things such as Anki, sleeping well before a test, good eating habits and exercising (doesn't mean i applied them to my life). But it was nice to have everything put into one place. It's a way to ratify that's what i should be doing.

And there indeed were a lot of valuables knowledge to be learned here. The Pomodoro technique is something I've never heard about before, and I loved and am currently applying it. There are some "pomodoro" apps out there, and the one I'm using makes me feel like I'm gamifying my learning. It's really fun to study that way.

It's a very good course for anyone that wants to become a better learner.

I first took this course when I was at the height of my frustration over learning Nihongo in Osaka. During that time, I had been studying almost everyday for 11 months. I was constantly reading, reviewing, and answering exercises. I often studied until I was too tired to study any more, and yet I could retain the information only for a while. The way I was studying wasn't working for me, and I wanted to know how I can study and learn more effectively. A month after I started taking this course and applying some of the techniques presented in it, I noticed that I was able to remember more of my Nihongo lessons. I actually spent less time studying, but I think that, with the techniques I was using, I was studying in a smarter, more effective, and more efficient way... I continue to apply these techniques in relevant situations in my life now. I also review this course every once in a while. Each time, I find that I still learn something from it. Thank you so much to everyone who came together to make this course possible!

I highly recommend this course to just about anyone as the concepts can be applicable to students, experienced professionals, instructors, researchers, etc. With today's rapid pace of technology advancement, I find it sometimes overwhelming to know where to even start to understand some new technologies and concepts that are outside of my profession. In fact, technology within my profession is rapidly changing owing to IoT, so I really want to understand these other technologies that are now working in tandem with my industry. I took this course in hopes that it would make approaching some of these new concepts easier. It greatly exceeded my expectations. Some are completely novel concepts, while others are things I've been doing for years, but didn't actually have a name for them (e.g. diffused mode of thinking). The course is very easy to follow and I really liked the professors. They seem to be genuinely nice people who want people to learn and succeed. I will end as I began. I HIGHLY recommend this course.

A truly outstanding course. The material is both very useful and interesting.

Without any intention to brag about, I've always considered myself as a decent learner, but when people asked me about it, I couldn't articulate why. Turns out I was already using some of the technics and approached taught about in this course. Doesn't mean it wasn't useful for me - I still learn a lot, and now I have an understanding *why* I was/am more successful in learning than some of my peers.

The teaching staff is pleasent to listen to. Video editing has some of that "early 2000s Windows Movie Maker" style, but it has its charm and works our pretty well in combination with Barbara's narration. The only technical fault is that some interviews have unequal audio levels (but that's not such a big deal, also the interviews are just a bonus).

Also the course is completely free, which is nice (you only need to pay to get a certificate, but this is the kind of course where a certificate is not that needed imo).

All in all, totally recommend.

I had an amazing experience with this online course. Firstly, the course has a great structure making it easy to follow Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowki! Moreover, the ideas and exercises are easily applicable in daily life, no matter if you are a student or already working. The techniques discussed will help with every new project you try to tackle. Mostly, they emphasize the benefits of learning, having fun acquiring new knowledge and shows you how you can motivate yourself to learn. However, they also reassure you to not be too hard on yourself, to keep practising with the beneficial methods and of course being real with yourself about your progress. It was a refreshing perspective into an academic world that is sadly and to our detriment still more focused on achievement than on acquiring deep and meaningful knowledge. Therefore I really have to say: Great job!! I am so happy this course exists. It is giving us the reality check, we so desperately need to understand what really matters when learning! Thank you!

While this course isn't very deep the ideas you learn about learning are practical, actionable and at least for me something I've been able to incorporate into my daily life that has actually had results. Professor Oakley has a very light hearted and fun way of presenting her ideas and she interviews a lot of really interesting people that give insights into tackling difficult subjects, learning and self improvement overall. Dr Sanojwski (hopefully I spelled that right!) gives an introductory or everyday explanation into the neurobiology of learning and taking together with professor Oakley's lessons they gave a good mental picture of what's happening in the brain when we are trying to learn new things and how we can set ourselves up for success in learning.

This course is most likely aimed at high school and beginning college students but I feel that it could really be for anyone who is interested in improving their lives and learning something new. After all everyone could benefit from learning how to learn!

Thank you Coursera for allowing me to enroll this course for free.

Barbara Oakley Ph.D and Dr. Sejnowski, thank you for your excellent instruction.

This course has taught me a lot of useful things, include:

- Having a thorough understanding of how the brain works to learn faster and understand subjects more deeply.

- How to perform well on tests and overcome some mental obstacles when taking tests.

- Effective memorization techniques.

- Against procrastination.

The instructors teach professionally. The knowledge and skills are given in a style that is simple to comprehend, useful, and revelant to practice. The quizzes accurately represent the course material, which helps students remember well. There is a forum with a large number of students. Peers review assignments quickly and give polite feedback.

This course and the instructors are the best examples of what they taught.

I will come back to these lessons again and time again.

I am glad to share what I have learned and experienced in this course.

Sincerely thank you!

If you are reading this and you haven't taken this course already, PLEASE DO! This course was a game-changer for me. I didn’t have any clear goals or plans for my future, but this course inspired me to start learning new things. I’m currently learning digital marketing and loving it. Barbara, the instructor, was amazing. She was so kind, humble, and helpful. She explained everything in a simple and engaging way, using great examples, stories, and visuals. The course content was well-designed and relevant. I learned a lot about myself and how I learn best. For example, I found out that I have a short working memory, but that also makes me more creative. I also learned some practical tips and tricks to overcome procrastination, improve memory, switch between different modes of learning, and more. I think this course should be taught in schools to make learning more fun and effective. I have already recommended this course to my friends. It was a wonderful experience and I’m very happy and satisfied with it.