This class is invaluable for learning about the process of learning rather than the product of learning. It provides some valuable information on how your brain works and how to get the most out of your study time. I especially found the section on procrastination useful.Highly recommended if you're looking for information on how to learn well, enhance your knowledge and make efficient use of your study time.

This course is fantastic. It shows you how your brain works and what are the most helpful strategies for learning. For someone like me, who is always enrolling in new classes, attending courses online and thinking about getting a new degree, this course teaches how to use your energy and commit in ways that not deplete your energy and really help you accomplish your goals. I wish this was taught in school...!

The course is absolutely fantastic. The instructors, especially Miss Oakley with her calm and confident demeanor, makes learning absolutely a joy ride. All the tips and techniques, new insights into the working of brain, superb metaphors and analogies makes the course one of the best courses which i had till date taken in Coursera. Don't have second thoughts and click "Enroll Now". You'll not regret doing so.

I think it should be called Learning How to Learn Better. Nevertheless, it is an amazing course - it helped me understand a lot of things that I intuitively knew as a teacher and a student. It also gives helpful techniques to tackle procrastination - something I am afflicted with from time to time. I also like the fact that the team keeps sending me links on learning or research on the same.

Thank you so much!

I've absolute loved this course! It feels like a discovery of a new world. I thought I am opening the door to the learning techniques, but the truth is I've found this wonderful new world, that just sucked me in. And now I can't stop learning more and wanting to learn even more. I'm very grateful to the most wonderful instructors ever who shared their insights with us.

Thank you, Dr Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski!

I would highly recommend this course to everyone! An absolute must for all educators and learners. As an educator myself, I have come away with a sack of ideas that I know are going to enhance my teaching forever, needless to say my learning too. I honestly, see teaching and learning with a different perspective now. Dr Barbara Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski, truly THANK YOU for teaching me about learning.

Excellent ! This is what I've been waiting for, since my high school years ! I was telling my 17 year old son, Boris, just the other day, this month, that we should've been taught how to learn, before being sent off to school ! Or at least gradually taught how to learn ... I remember one person told me, during my quest, that: ..."you learn how to learn by yourself, as you advance in your studies..." Wrong !

This course is as valuable as Enlightenment. Sheer genius is Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrance Sejnowski and "Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects" course team.

I would recommend everyone to do this revolutionary course. I strongly believe that this course must be part of the regular school curriculums throughout the world.

Best Regards and Thanks,

Varun Sharma.

India.

Really excellent course that I wish I had taken 20+ years ago but am at least grateful that I ran across now. Everyone can benefit from this course, but those who've struggled with school or a particular topic will benefit the most. To obtain the most benefit from this course, get the accompanying text book (I got the kindle version) and also review the additional readings and videos at the end of each week.

Great lesson structure, great teaching group, all in all an awesome course! This is actually my first ever online course, this course has been worth every second. "Learning how to learn"has given me new and profound perspective towards learning, I only wish I had started this course four years earlier, it would have made all the difference. I recommend everyone to take this course, it has offered me so much.

Being a retired biology teacher, a teacher trainer, at 84 years , I am learning the most important tools of learning. I am eager to try this in a village school, where I spend some time during the school hours. I am grateful to Coursera.Deeply love theway Barbara Oakly and Dr. Terrence conduct talk. I am pleased that such a wonderful course on Learning is available for free on line. Grateful. C G nagaraja.

I enjoyed the course and it is very easy to take the information on board, you don't need a background in teaching to understand it.

Delivered well in short chunks with short quiz's on the way to help you digest and remember what you have learnt.

It doesn't take a large commitment in terms of time to complete the course so click 'yes' and join up.

This is the 1st mooc I've done and look forward to doing more.

Loved learning new facts about brain and how it taken in new information. had some prior experience with diffused thinking and aha moments, but had no idea on what may make it happen.

Exercise being so important for learning was an eye opener. its going to be part of my daily schedule to have some form of exercise.

Thank You Very much for such a wonderful experience and loads of learning about how to learn!!

Oustanding course that will provide a fantastic set of tools to improve your learning skills in a effective and fun way through a very interesting journey into neuroscience. I'd highly reccomend the course whether your are at high school or Phd student. It can be used for parents wiling to help their kids as well. It's a course based on what is the most modern research in neuroscience and learning process.

The skills taught in this class are magnificent. However, it is the small one line sentences, the advice, the feeling that others are also in the same boat, that really encouraged me to continue. I like this class not just because it taught me valuable skills to apply to my learning, but also to realize that perseverance and determination are really the key to success. This course reminded me of just that.

I'm grateful that I have bumped into this course. The ideas delivered are life changing. So little attention is paid to HOW WE LEARN, though we love to celebrate the good students and chastise the 'bad' ones. This set of ideas which could be described as a primer in neuroscience, and a set of techniques that make you learn more efficiently and joyfully, SHOULD BE TAUGHT IN SCHOOLS. What are we waiting for?

Very interesting subject matter presented in a memorable way. The course was really helpful in understanding how to retain information and be more deliberate about learning. It also provided good tips for combatting procrastination, not tricking myself into thinking I am learning, and not getting "stuck" in the same old ways of thinking. The professors are quirky, but it works well with the subject matter.

This course has really helped me not about learning how to learn but also how to deal with procrastination and to use the diffuse mode of thinking in solving problems in other areas of my life. A brilliant course indeed. Although not compulsory, the book by Barbara Oakley called A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) is a good companion material for this course.

The course is indeed a powerful mental tool. I suggested this course to the central school authorities, India to propagate in their schools (NO REPLY YET). I retired from these schools in 2004. In fact, I shall register for this course once again at a later date as I am busy with other coursera courses at the moment, if allowed. Some of my friend will join this course at my suggestion. Manjit Singh Rana

I like this course so much and Terrence Sejnowski and Barbara Oakley are super awesome. I appreciate it so much. I really enjoy studying this course. It does help me a lot to learn how to learn effectively, efficiently and in a positive way. I highly recommend this course to other friends who are seeking a better way of learning or encountering any difficulty in learning. Good work and Thank you very much

I enjoyed this course. It was well paced and the material was repeated just often enough to sink in, but not so often that it became dull. I like that the course designers supported assertions about learning techniques with modern neuro-biology research and am still reading the references. It was short enough that it was easy to complete, but "full" enough that I felt there was value in taking the course.

Recommended for anyone looking forward to improvise in any aspect, it's the most basic thing that everyone must be aware of. Personally, it made me realize the flaws in learning methods/habits ,that were committed, me not being aware of 'em all the time! In simpler terms, some things are realized only when someone else points them out for ya, it's amazing how 'science' could do all of it!

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Hello, I liked it very much. I didn´t pay for the certificate because when I took Positive psychology I paid and NEVER recieve the certificate. I tried to communicate and there is no telephone nor contact to claim. I checked on the web and several people had gone through the same thing so im never paying again. Maybe you could help to improve this with coursera.

Nevertheless I loved your course. thankyou.

A well designed course. Happy to be part of this team and learning How to Learn. Professor makes us easy to sail through the topic at the same time your interest for the course increases over time. Even though test questions seems easy, the assignments will make you work a bit to get most out of the course. I recommend this course to everyone and would rate the highest point available in the rating scale.

This course was just WOW. So many people struggle with the things explained in here.

I really loved this course because it explains why the things work but it also gives you solutions.

Abraham Lincoln said: "Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." Here, you invest 10-20 hours on this course, that will make you life so much easier for the rest of your life.