What Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski, the educators, have done is breathtaking. This course gives such a great insight into how the brain works and how to overcome obstacles or illusions and therefore think more effectively, it is awesome. The only detail to improve is the subtitles, I was using Spanish subtitles and sometimes they were incomprehensible, not to mention that they were not in alignment with the speech.

Fantastic class. A lot of materials could be considered common knowledge or basic, but the course was very upfront about that. I fact, I believe that it was necessary in order to cater to a wide range of audiences and to benefit as many people as possible. While I didn't find the course to be challenging, I did take away a couple tools and tricks that will continue to benefit me throughout the lifelong journey of learning.

This is a wonderful course for any person who is interested in learning how to learn effectively. I highly appreciate the LHTL team's efforts to design the course content in such a way that person from any discipline is able to understand the concepts easily. In one word this was an awesome beginning to the effective learning journey. A big thank you to LHTL team! I am definitely going to share this course with my friends.

A brilliant course, i should complete it way earlier! The learning tips are so useful, it seems to me i'm automatically applying some of them already. Trying to implement mind maps for everything like presentation for work, a book presentation meeting etc, found this tool to be very useful. After making a mind map i can easily recall the whole speech or idea behind it! Still need to inhabit the chapter 4 tips into my life.

Whether it is for a Degree/Certification, Training, professional or studying; this is the best approach to understand and gives you the best tools for understanding and comprehending any topic. I highly recommend it!

I took the learning three months ago, and I just took the test; Dr Barb Oakley, hit the sweet spot... She has given me a gift. Thank you Dr. Barb. This is a wonderful course and you explain it with an ease

I started this course because I want to further my learning and venture into subjects out of my comfort zone. The course content, the delivery, the presentations, the duration of each session has been carefully crafted that the student is able to easily grasp it. I'm extremely grateful to Dr. Barbara Oakley & Dr. Terry Sejnowski for putting this course together and making it available for lovers of learning like myself!

I am a language teacher so I knew about chunking and SRS, but the rest of the material was new to me. Great explanations with solid graphics and the right energy make this a valuable course. It helps me with my own learning and also when teaching others. This is good to anyone, but it would be especially helpful for university students who want to do better, who already have the drive, but are lacking some valuable tools.

Barbara mam and Terry sir .....You were amazing.....!!!!!!! Barbara mam......You were really like my own teacher and I went into my kindergarten days...!!! Whenever I see you on screen...I get enthusiastic...I was struggling with learning problems....This course was really useful....This course must be taken by everyone....Now I have this confidence that I can learn any new thing that is unrelated to me...Smart isn't it;)

Muy interesante. Excelentemente explicado, todos los detalles, si me costo un poco por no estar completamente en Español, pero con lo que se de ingles me enseño muchisimas cosas.. si tengo tiempo en un futuro tomare el que están traduciendo al Espa{ol, por si se me paso algo.. pero si, este curso me ayudara en mi privado de la universidad, en organizar y ser mas efectivo en el trabajo, y si quiero estudiar nuevas cosas.

My company decided to move everyone around and I was placed in an environment where I had to learn a new field. It's been a long time since I was in school and the learning process was not going well. I saw this course course and figured maybe there's something I've forgotten or never learned about learning. There is a lot I never understood about learning! I encourage others to take this course and find out for yourself.

Highly informative, fun, and engaging for a course that's very meta -- Professors Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski present the subject matter in a way that anyone can easily relate, whether they came from a science or an arts/humanities course. It has since inspired us to reflect on our current study habits and look at where we can start changing for the better.

Thank you for teaching us about learning how to learn!!

Barbara Oakley shows you how you can go from studying zero to studying hero, and deeply learn complex concepts that you never thought you had a shot at truly knowing. She lays out concrete, easy to follow steps that you can do to help understanding and memory, while also developing skills to fight and eventually eliminate procrastination. I found her inspirational! Thank you Barbara, for creating such an amazing course!

Great tools and scientific explanations that help us understand how our brain works, why we procrastinate and how to learn more efficiently. You start having a more rational attitude towards your learning process, which helps move forward and get it done easier than before! You can definitely get rid of bad old habits and start creating new more healthy ones. Very helpful for anybody, life is a constant learning journey!

This course introduced many important concepts and tools like "focus mode vs diffuse mode of thinking", "chunking","illusion of competence"..etc. It may be the very basic knowledge about mental function, neurons, and some sort of neuroscience, but it's like a gate opens a new world for you to know your self learning mode and help you in some extend to more focus on the points that needs to be improved. Very great course!

Ótimo curso, nos dá conceitos importantes sobre como estudar, que efetivamente melhoram nosso aprendizado. Uma boa dica para aqueles que querem começar é assistir esse curso com a seguinte pergunta em mente "como eu devo estudar para melhorar meu rendimento". Ao final, aprenderão muito sobre as técnicas, e verão que é possível aplicar em vários tipos de matérias - desde matemática, programação, artes marciais, dança etc.

Learning how to learn has never been easier and more fun! This course is an invaluable aid to learn ANYTHING. It provides 'know-how' and confidence in your ability to master any subject matter. The techniques provided to deal with procrastination have significantly impacted my life. I am grateful to Coursera and to instructors Terrence Sejnowsi and especially Barbara Oakley for making learning such a pleasure. Thank you!

The course has provided valuable insights into the cognitive processes of learning. As a teacher, I agree that all the information given in the course is true to my experience. This helps me to understand my learners better and to guide them well while dealing with complex topics in their learning. I suggest every parent, child and teacher must aware of this information while dealing with children and their learning.

This is a great course that teaches not only how to learn but how to work and make the best of the energy and time we put into our endeavours. The teacher´s very honest and slow passed approach turns out to be very relaxing and enjoyable, to the contrary of most of the modern high passed youtube videos and tutorials out there. Very recommended for EVERYONE looking to learn about the brain and how to make the best of it.

I loved this course! Full of useful and sound recommendations. Based on real science. I'm planning on applying it to my teaching and to the several subjects I'm constantly learning. I personally don't like the several mentions to zombies and alike, for a couple of times it made me question if the course was for teenagers (I'm 40 yo!). But the information is very well presented and valuable, I would definitely recommend.

This is an amazing course and will help all in their pursuit of higher learning, It teaches techniques that are are both practical and easy to implement such as the focused and diffused modes, the use of metaphors and analogy in learning, the importance of rest and repetition (a little bit every day to learn and grow) achieving mastery in your subject area plus overcoming procrastination with the Pomodoro technique etc.

Barbara is a fun professor to listen to. The jokes and analogies can be terribly cheesy but they are memorable! I wish I had taken this course years before starting univeristy studies. It explains how the brain works to process, learn, and memorize information and gives practical tips anyone can implement when trying to learn new material. This is a valuable course that has already enhanced my learning over the 4 weeks.

I expected this to be another cringy middle-school-esque lesson on how to highlight properly and reread information but I was pleasantly surprised to be immersed in a science-based, highly effective course that actually kept my ADHD brain intrigued and invested. The skills you learn here are fact-based, proven methodologies from wo very reliable and fun-to-watch individuals and I would recommend this course to anyone.

I found this course interesting and wish it would have been available when I was in college the first time or even high school. What I enjoyed the most was how learning concepts that I’ve come across through my adult life have been gathered up and organized in easy to follow presentations. I think this material is so important that I’ve asked my teenage daughter entering high school this fall to go through this course.

This was a great course! I followed three years ago, and it is great because it provides not only techniques (this is great!) to improve your learning process but, also, the background/basis for these techniques, and the scientific evidence for this background, as well. This means that it provides you with powerful tools to improve your learning process on your own, (and, in my case, my students' learning process).

It's so helpful for me because now, I can learn how to improve myself and how to learn new skills effectively. This course also help me to recover from my self loath habit (when I failed to make some good result in work). From this course, I learn more about my brain, how to think and learn effectively. I learn so many things and I will recommend many people to take this course. Thank you, Mrs Barbara and Mr Sejnowski.