This course was incredible and it has changed how I approach my life. I am a graduate of chemical engineering and I wish I knew this information when I was in school. I recommend this course for any person who is struggling, interested, or even looking to find a new way of thinking. Any person can take in the vast resources and this is for any student, not just engineers. Thank you Dr. Oakley & Dr. Sejnowski for sharing you knowledge and experience.

Excellent course which teaches a crucial and fundamental skill. The instructors Barbara and Terrence are clearly passionate about the topic; it's reflected in the high quality of the course. I liked all aspects of the course, but I really appreciated all the optional interviews they did. It's great to have so many different perspectives on learning how to learn. I was able to take away something (even if only one or two things) from every interview.

LHTL was a great course that provided me with beneficial study habits with reasoning behind why they worked so well. I am guilty of cramming for a test the night before, which I now regret because I didn't take the time to actually learn the material and create new neural pathways to solidify the knowledge. I wish I had taken this course before graduating college. I would recommend this to anyone getting ready to attend their first college semester.

There are more techniques I can use in this course than I expected before I started. I want to share these ideas with my students. The title is very attractive, because I've been thinking teachers taught us each subject, and they encoureage us saying do your best, study harder, but they never taught us the way of learnig. This course's contents match my long term questions. I love learning, so I am really thankful for this couse. Thank you so much.

One of the best courses I've taken. Detailed, easy to understand, and full of new concepts on how to hack your brain to learn better. The interviews with different experts also give me a lot of insight on strategies on how they learn and thus excel in their field. It makes me sad to only know about these theories and techniques after I've already graduated, but I'll definitely be able to use them for my licensure exam. Highly recommended course!

This was a wonderful course! I was aware of some of the concepts in learning as I have been an instructor myself for 15 years and took a few Masters classes, but I was amazed at how a lot of this applied not only to learning, but just every day life. The instructors did an excellent job of explain each of the concepts, and I have a much better understanding of the brain and why we make mistakes in learning. Overall, I really enjoyed this course.

This couldn't have come at a better time. Excellent course for so many aspects of acquired knowledge. One of the best things I learned was that I would say many already do some form of some of these methods, but lack the confidence to show it. This course accentuates that and is a confidence builder in itself minus the all the additional knowledge involved. I highly recommend to those both young and old in search of a way to see things differently.

One of the best courses for life-learners - those who want to learn faster and better!

The course content is very carefully selected and designed and the delivery by both Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski are awesome. Concepts are demonstrated in way that learner understands easily.

Highly recommended course for anyone who wants to learn more in life!

A Big Thank you Coursera team, University of California and Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski.

This course helps identify methods and behaviors that will help you learn and improve memory as well as the key practices to avoid that can harm your ability to learn and understand. The material could be summarized into a shorter course, but it would not come with the explanation of the reasons WHY the methods work, and it is likely that you will get more value by completing this full course and following the methods outline here with confidence.

It's an interesting course with many practical tools and tips to make learning more effective. Useful for students as weel as people who want to expand their professional knowledge, topics of interest or foreign language learners. Thanks to the course, I was able to catch mistakes in my learning process, correct them and thus learn more effectively. I do hope it will also allow me to increase my knowledge and skills, with significant time savings.

It was an excellent course and a wonderful journey going through the videos and the tests. I really learned a lot from this course and I wish I had took this course will I was in school or college, but I learned from this course that it is never too late to learn new stuff. I surely will use the concepts and techniques that I learned here in my career and in any learning experience that I will go through from now on in my life.

Thank you very much.

It's an enlightenment taking this course. The concept of how the brain works and the kind of things that are going on during learning is amazing and complex. However, Dr. Oakley will softly unravel the knowledge for you in a soothing and comforting way that will stay with you for the rest of your life. She will frequently invite people who have excelled in their fields to talk to you and the powerful learning techniques will come to you naturally.

When I was starting this course, I already felt that since I've graduated from University with honors, I have nothing more to learn. Since this was a highly-recommended course on Coursera, however, I still decided to give it a shot. The concepts taught in the course were easy to grasp and the abundance of visual aids really helped in the delivery of the material. I would recommend this course to anyone regardless of educational attainment or age.

I hold a Ph.D. and still very impressed by these classes.I've learned things never thought related to this very underrated area of Academia, at least in my country, which is the processes involved in "learning how to learn".In sum, I just loved this cheerful journey with Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski. I'm grateful to them that took this initiative that can reach thousands and thousands of people with multiple backgrounds.Now, let's practice it all!

This is an enormous important course for everyone who wants to improve his learning skills. Throughout our educational career we improve our math skills, language skills, biology skills and more but we never improve our learning, reading and listening skills. That is done by this course!

If you want to achieve more in life and make progress in a specific or in different fields, then attend the course and become a well-trained and educated learner!

I enjoyed this class very much. I got a new understanding of learning I sure could've used when I went to school years ago. But as Dr. Barbara points out several times, it's never too late. I especially enjoyed the glimpse into the neuroscience of how we learn. Fascinating! It makes me want to dig deeper.

The course is over and I still review my notes and hand write new ones to keep the ideas in my mind. I am grateful for this course -- thank you.

Excelente curso. No solo aprendes excelentes técnicas de memorización y aprendizaje, sino que también te motiva a aprender más por tu cuenta, a buscar nuevas técnicas que te puedan ser útiles a ti (pues a algunos les funcionan más algunas técnicas que otras) y a entender que si no comprendes algo no es necesariamente porque no tengas la capacidad sino que necesitas acercarte al problema desde otra perspectiva, pues todos somos capaces de aprender.

I recently completed the 'Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects' course on Coursera, and I must say it was a fantastic experience. The course not only helped me understand how my brain works but also provided me with practical tools to improve my learning process. The content was engaging, and the instructors were excellent. I highly recommend this course to anyone looking to enhance their learning skills.

A lo largo de mi vida me he encontrado con problemas que me han bloqueado mi desarrollo personal y profesional, materias escolares o conocimientos profesionales que se han visto afectados por mi bloqueo mental para aprender. Este curso te da varias estrategias para no rendirte y mantenerte siempre aprendiendo usando diferentes tecnicas y produndizando que hay detras de ciertos comportamientos personales desde la perspectiva neuronal. Recomendado!

l found the lectures and breadth of material -including optional readings and interviews very engaging. I was particularly interested to know that Barbara Oakley had previously been a Slavist. This was my own initial field of study and so I felt her observations when switching to a scientific subject were highly relevant. I hope to put many of the ideas of Learning How to Learn into practice and I would welcome further courses from this provider.

I am a professional software engineer, who has been out of university for 5+ years. Taking this course gave me insight into how we learn, and how to learn effectively. Even though testing is no part of my life now (outside the annual blood test), learning remains a critical piece of working life. This course helped me get more from the texts I read and re-use pertinent information needed in my daily life. Thanks for helping me learn how to learn!

It is excellent and course, to show you how to learn effectively and also cope with procrastination. Well structured course, with each week of the material enables me to apply it right away. By understanding how our brains work, it allows to take control and strategize learning. The interviews with various well-known and successful learners or people at the end of each course week also provide interesting and useful insights about how they learn.

This course became a part of my day. I began to apply what I learned in my studies and in any work I do. It helped me a lot in learning my unlimited mental skills and how to use them and arrange them. I learned from the course that I have to trust in my new system that I started to arrange my time and to organize my ideas so that I can make full use of it. I really trust and use it and thank everyone who helped to bring it out in this smooth way.

Honestly, This was my first course to finish on coursera. before I used to view some courses and leave them by max 2nd week. But That course content is very attractive. you feel like, every think you are looking for, or you want to have answers for, are ready for you. I would do recommend this course to any one who have problems with time management, procrastination, problems with focusing, bad memory.

Thanks Barbara and Sejnowski! really thanks!

Although some students they think it's unnecessary to take such a course, because they have studied since they're born. I don't think so, when people get familiar with somethings, they would become lazy and don't want to change it anymore. This course helps me a lot, I realize I study in an inefficient way and begin to follow this new and efficient way. I also use calendar to plan at the same time. I'm very appreciate for this fantastic course!!!