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!

I want to thank everyone who took part in formulating such an informative, thought-provoking, and challenging course. I have learned a lot and I will continue to review and practice the concepts and skills that were covered. These lessons may be applied across the humanities and are helpful across the masses. I have learned more about myself and plan to share information with others, as I analyze and build up/breakdown more of myself. Thank you.

Barbara Oakley! Terrence Sejnowski!

This is an excellent course on learning with life changing ideas and techniques.Barbara did an excellent job of explaining concepts in a simple and easy to understand manner. Every lecture is only 3 - 6 minutes long so it doesn't require a huge time commitment.I had a lot of fun learning how to learn and I can't wait to incorporate what I learned to my every day life. Thank you Barbara!This course should be a compulsory curriculum for students all over the world. It is that good!

A highly recommended course for everyone struggling with memory, concentration and learning issues while learning something new. The modules were extremely well sorted and easily explained to help grasp the key concepts of learning. Learned a lot form this course. I sincerely hope to put to use all the facts and techniques I acquired from this course in my daily life and improve my lifestyle. Thanks a lot for the course!

Eagerly looking forward to learning more from coursera.

This course is literally a stargate for everyone has had problems to accomplish a long and structured course of study due to what Barbara calls properly " zombie " thus, thanks to all the helpfull tools learned here I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to grow my knowledge upon matters i love and really desire to study in my future for my career . At least, from the deep of my heart, thank you for your efforts and willingness to positively influence our lifes . Mirko L. Bosio

This is a very interesting course for those who want to get an insight of how some people succeed in bringing the best out of them while many others struggle. The methods and tips discussed in the course are very helpful and easy to apply it in real world problems.The course is made concise and doesn't take up too much of time. 2 hours in a week should be enough to complete the course in 4 weeks. The explanation of topics are also done very well that makes it easy to understand.

This course does something that I think every education system should use as a hard foundation to their teaching philosophy, it teaches people how to learn effectively and efficiently. It is incredibly frustrating that in my 18+ years as a student through primary education and on to graduate levels, I was never meaningfully taught how to study for myself but this course has done an outstanding job of doing just that. This should be required learning for every education system.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to rethink parts of my work as teacher. During the sessions of this course I already gave my students some hints, such as "pomodoro" (it was the first time I heard about it, although I'm Italian :)). The next step will be encouraging those who struggle with study and giving them some tools.

Another thing I love is returning to be a student and taking tests: this helps me understanding what's going on in the students mind.

Grazie mille e ciao!!

Though I did not take the paid certificate option because I do not have the funds right now, I appreciate the fact that I can learn such wonderful techniques and tools from people who have been able to break through barriers in their own fields. Thanks to Drs. Oakley and Sejnowski, I feel like I have a lot of zombie super-powers now. If you want to know why you have not been doing so well with some courses, this is the class for you. Would probably be the best month of your life

Great and well-explained information on the subject. Plenty of relevant info on the brain and body in relation to both learning and well-being, as well as practical study tools and practices. The course also had a great structure; well-built for retention of the material, and applying the principles explained in the course. Really happy with the experience and information provided, and I will make sure to apply the information and learning tools during my pursuit of knowledge :)

This is my first course on this site and I really enjoyed it. The interesting thing is, some of the things the professors spoke about are things I've done before but it wasn't that effective because I did it wrong. This course simply teaches how to learn effectively but it's up to you to practice what you've been thought. The professors are wonderful and so are the interviews. Either you are having difficulty studying or you want to improve your studies, this course is great!