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About the Course

This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects. Using these approaches, no matter what your skill levels in topics you would like to master, you can change your thinking and change your life. If you’re already an expert, this peep under the mental hood will give you ideas for turbocharging successful learning, including counter-intuitive test-taking tips and insights that will help you make the best use of your time on homework and problem sets. If you’re struggling, you’ll see a structured treasure trove of practical techniques that walk you through what you need to do to get on track. If you’ve ever wanted to become better at anything, this course will help serve as your guide. This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or prior to, its companion course, Mindshift. (Learning How to Learn is more learning-focused, and Mindshift is more career-focused.) A related course by the same instructors is Uncommon Sense Teaching. To join the fully translated Portuguese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprender To join the fully translated Spanish version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprendiendo-a-aprender To join the fully translated Chinese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ruhe-xuexi To join the fully translated French version of the course, visit : http://www.coursera.org/learn/apprendre-comment-apprendre...

Top reviews

GA

Jul 20, 2017

Really useful insights had been provided by this course. No price can be put on this valuable resource. It's beyond anything valuable. Thank you very much for making this course. God Bless Everyone :)

MC

Oct 28, 2019

I enjoyed this course so much. I learned a lot about how I can become a better learner. This course was very interesting and useful. I have some tools that I can use to optimize my learning potential.

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By DIMITRIOS Z

Dec 11, 2020

This courses helped me to understand many problems in classroom . Defines properly the conceptual map of educacional problems and notify the tools to avoid them. As for me the best thing that happened is that i gave a name to the facts that made me a bad student.Now i have bigger motivation and passion too ,to help my students to avoid my mistakes. Greetings from Pyrgos Ilia -Greece ( Χαιρετισμούς από τον Πύργο Ηλείας- Ελλάδα)

By Daniel M

Oct 8, 2020

When i was in college i had a really tough time finishing and passing my classes, i felt school was really not meant for me.

I wish i would've found this course years before.

Still i think material learned during this previous weeks will strongly help me for future endeavours.

It's amazing to learn all this kind of subjects based on scientific background and taught by really smart people.

Thanks you so much, Barbara and Terrance.

By Blair K

Jan 27, 2019

Many thanks to the instructors and university for making this course available. It pointed out some of the flaws and limitations in my learning methods. More importantly, it gave me a road map to improving my learning and long-term comprehension of subjects. I am already using my new developing skills to improve reading comprehension, learning newer complex materials, and being generally more efficient in work and learning.

By Rhys J

Jan 28, 2018

This course was fantastic. I wish I was aware of all these hints and tips many years ago, however, glad to have been taught these now. Barbara and Terry thank you, as you have provided so many valuable tools to be able to learn more efficiently and understand those tougher concepts. You will change many peoples lives with your courses, most likely you have done so already. I look forward to your books and the following courses

By Georgia J

Dec 26, 2017

Great course! After completing a three-course MOOC certificate earlier this year, I realized I needed help studying and retaining information. I learned about this course via The Odin Project, signed up the same day, and completed it within two weeks. I find the presentations, techniques, recommendations, and optional videos very helpful. I'm using the techniques to learn CSS and HTML. I appreciate it being available for free.

By Ram S

Nov 20, 2017

Truly outstanding and eye opening course. It has been a couple of months now...and am thinking about going through the material once again (to Chunk all the good stuff I was exposed to in the course).

Have shared the course to my Senior Management. While they are all good people I think many of have forgotten the joy and art of learning. I really believe it will be good exposure for them to go through the course themselves.

By Janis S

Jan 30, 2016

I am a woman in my late 50s who has been limited in my life, my education, and my employment by lack of confidence in my ability to learn math. In Summer 2016, I will complete all of the classes for a BS degree, all but two math classes. After completing Learning How to Learn, I am confident that, while math may be a challenge, it is a challenge I will overcome.

Thank you for sharing these learning tools with the rest of us!

By Jonathan C

Nov 20, 2015

Wow. This course is great. After just the first couple of videos my brain starting working on how to approach other areas of study differently--much more efficiently. The spacing of material is something I had already know, but the reaffirmation of having to push through has been cemented in my mind. And now I know that that is precisely learning... it entails some degree of being uncomfortable. Thanks. Keep the goods rolling.

By Рыбакова А Н

Dec 3, 2021

one of the courses I think should be obligatory for anyone who is in their studies (colleges, universities, schools, individual studies). the materials are all in simple language, the process is built by their own recommendation of the best memorizing techniques, and it works! more than a year later I still remember the important points I can use for myself and recommend to other people (which I always do). thank you so much!

By Rich S

Oct 10, 2021

Great course and highly recommended!

Really well constructed modules and engaging hosts / content, with a healthy dose of joviality throughout the material helping to learn the concepts quickly.

Ideas were presented well, with complex concepts broken down very effectively. Clear commitment from the hosts in covering a lot of bases, as underlined in a vast array of additional (optional) materials and references to other sources.

By Matheus c g

May 28, 2020

By far the best course I did in my entire life ! I learned how to deal with a big range of problems that in one way or another everyone deal with. It doesn't matter If you are doing great in school or college or you are flunking, you will learn something new from this course. I found incredible how effective the techniques presented here work and why anybody never told me this techniques before. 5/5 recommended for everyone !

By Ahmed A

Apr 25, 2020

An essential course for all ages and disciplines. Truly beneficial to anyone learning any thing throughout his/her whole life. It includes how the brain works and how to use it efficiently; how to be productive and how to avoid procrastination; how to concentrate and how to memorize; and most importantly some tools and techniques. What is also worth noting is the concise and direct instructors. I highly recommend this course.

By Alessio C

Oct 18, 2017

damn good,

i wish i could had all this info 30 and more years ago, indeed my past study methods are full of this error (and i really am surprised i have some sort of success... too bad i can't go back in time, but i will try to be better in any study i will do!) thanks a lot to teachers, clear and perfect english speaking (i'm italian and had no problem in understanding their speech.)

i suggest to do this course to all i could.

By Luv S

Jun 20, 2017

For full-time students and lifelong learners, this is the perfect course to add powerful tools to imporve deep learning. Being an experienced meditator, I could easily relate with the concepts of alternating focused mode and diffused mode learning. These are the very same concepts we use in the monastery. Eg: Timing your walks and sits (for instance 20min Walking meditation and 20 min Sit) and follow it by a 15 mins of break.

By Don T

Jun 18, 2017

This course will help you develop a strong sense of how you learn. It will teach you about the neurological mechanisms of memory and skill development, as well as give you some critical strategies, tools, and tips so that you can take control of how you learn. Barbara and Terrence are fantastic professors and this was an awesome course that has changed the way I look at my own education, both within the classroom and outside!

By Flavia A

Feb 2, 2023

Really helpful course that makes you understand how your brain works in order to lear how to learn better. It also gives tips and interesting techniques for studying and memorizing.Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski are so good at their job! They can explain difficult concepts in a very easy way. The whole course is designed with the same techniques that they explain, so you can understand better and learn better.

By 张世刚

Mar 14, 2022

very good material to study learn how to learn. maybe I will study this course once more, using the skills which I learned from this course.

Actually, I have already been using a lot of skills, like Anki, Supermemo, Mind Map. But I thought still have too many aspects to enhance. And what I have learned from this course will help me a lot to study new things, especially while memories will loss as we getting older.

tks the team

By Carlos G O

Oct 3, 2020

It is a very informative and entertaining course, where every lesson you get great advice for truly learning things more effectively. I have heard about the pomodoro technique before but combined with the more scientific (and fun) explanations i was convinced to try it out, and i think that is the best part about this course, and it is that I finish motivated to keep applying the tips and tricks learned here. Thanks a lot :)

By KRZ f e e

Jun 12, 2020

This course simply i consider one of the most powerful courses i have ever taken, also I have gotten enormous information out of this and this what i am planning to apply in my new life career. Finnaly the new skills i have learned are unforgetable and so ease to grasp and apply. One last thing learning how to learn wasn't only a course for me it was a part of mine now. Thank you drs for your efforts through the whole course

By KR S

Aug 14, 2019

This course really helped me to figure out how to learn. I wanted to learn things in the past, start a course but drop interest halfway through. I wish I came across this course at least a decade back. Never the less I have a lot more to learn. Now I know how to learn effectively without dropping the interest. Thank you so much, Professor Barbara Oakley. They way she explained was amazing. I wish I meet here in my lifetime.

By Rachel R

Apr 23, 2020

The course comprehensively covered the main areas of how to learn, in an interesting, easy to understand way. The videos retained your interest and the content was both interesting but extremely helpful. The instructors are fantastic and the optional reading and information contains a significant amount of information, which I would definitely recommend accessing. Overall, a fantastic course that I would strongly recommend.

By yifan

Jul 11, 2017

overall this course is brilliant as the content is very well structured and clearly explained. I really like how most how the concepts are explained through graphics and metaphors, and i feel close to the two teachers.

one thing I would like to point out is that the last part of the 4th week learning is not exciting as the first three weeks as it's very focused the practical tips for tests, which I am already familiar with.

By Adams R

Oct 26, 2023

Перед началом курса у меня были сомнения на счет его эффективности, даже после прочтения нескольких позитивных отзывов про курс. Но постепенно по мере прохождения курса, я нашел очень много практичных и полезных советов и информации. Преподаватели очень преподносят информацию и интересной форме и с учетом в голове "краткость - сестра таланта". Курс ппрошел на одном дыхании и завершил раньше назначенного срока. Рекомендую.

By Joel P

Sep 8, 2021

I am not going to say that I am a procrastinate person, but what I am doing as a job is very tiring and prevent me to focus or doing things on time. This course "learning how to learn" has thought me how to mange the study time and how to reduce stress when I study. The break time in between, the repetition to help you memorize and how to schedule your time, all these tips help me so far a lot to focus better on my study.

By Steven H G A

May 28, 2020

I believe that this course has given me a better understanding of how my brain works, and how can I make the most out of it. This course also pointed out the harmful habit I do during studying and learning, how can I avoid these harmful habits and replace them with beneficial ones. I will start applying all the the techniques I learned during this course to enhance my learning experience and change my life to a better one.