Brilliant course! Though I wished the quizzes incorporated (one of the learning tips in the course) interleaved distributed practice, e.g. testing week 2's material in week 3, etc. Also, the wrong answers in quizzes tended to be not tricky enough, i.e., someone who hasn't learned the material adequately could just do the quizzes and pass, since the wrong answers are obviously wrong.

Very enjoyable and helpful course best way to speed up learning and save lot's of time you can spend with friends and relatives instead of wasting it with bad and time consuming learning methods. So before signing up for the next course consider first signing up for LEARNING HOW TO LEARN and see how you can make your next course a much more fun experience once you know how to learn.

I honestly really enjoyed every minute of it, it gave me new ideas and points to look and use for learning anything, because i wasnt so sure on how to do it properly while using bad techniques or wasting time, i will rewatch it sometime in another instance, thank so much for creating this awesome course and i hope you the best of wishes both Barbara and Terrence, lovely persons <3

It is one of the good things in our world that a course like this is available for nearly everyone, and for free! It helped me confirm effective learning techniques, be aware of learning illusions and know how to master anything I want to learn but still the most amazing thing about this course is the fascination I felt when I begin to learn about the human brain and how it works.

Excellent course with great instructors. The videos are easy to follow and the short quizzes throughout make sure you've understood the material. Some of the reading sources mentioned were outdated however and linked to sites that were no longer available. The companion book is also a great read and I recommend it to anyone wanting to dive further into the subject of meta-learning.

Wish I had this information a few decades ago while I was in college. Looking forward to using this now as I recover from a TBI. I am 1 year post concussion and am still having issues with processing and learning information. I had difficulty reading and was off work for 10 months. My back ground is chemical engineering and zero emission vehicle technologies and infrastructure.

One of the best courses I have ever done! And I have done quite a few (got up to masters degree). I loved every bit of it!

Great lecturers! Easy to listen to.

All the time whilst learning, I kept thinking of how much time and energy I have lost over the years of learning wrongly. Thank you for this opportunity and knowledge. I hope to use it by helping my children in their learning.

This is a great course, full of helpful, easy-to-digest information, relayed in a friendly, positive, repetitive manner. Points were repeated in similar fashions, to express the same meaning, but show from a slightly different vantage point to further ingrain the material. Frequent use of personal insight questions helped to cement the information further into the long term memory.

Engaging, witty, informative, compulsive, persuasive and effective. Nothing fancy, just a smart presenter putting it over in a way that makes sense supported by the science and academic papers that give it credibility. Yet so many people have tried to do this in the past? It is the magic of combining an online platform that is of its age and works, and someone with a story to tell.

If your your are looking for the formula to use your brain with more efficiency. Take this course right now. And the end of the course, i was mixed with two feelings why haven't i enrolled myself earlier and welcome to a new-me ready to explore an ocean of new subjects . I send a warm thanks to Barb and Terence for the quality of their work and for having shared their knowledge.

This course was the most efficient and complete I've ever watched. I'm so gratefull that I have an opportunity to enhance my learning skills. These materials can be called 'gold' without any doubts. I will try to put in practice everything I've got in this course. Also, I want to say a tremendous Thank You to the creators and participants of this course! This work was worth doing.

Before starting or learning any course of your interest, I would urge you to First Do THIS course completely and then, I am sure the efficiency of learning will drastically increase and will give a feeling of satisfaction.

I would like to Thank Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for such a great course material and the learning experience which they shared.

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Mukul Bisen

This is one of the best courses that I have attended online. It has given me a lot of tips and tricks about how to learn new concepts. The concepts are explained by Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski in a way which is easy to follow and recall. I feel really fortunate to have got an opportunity to come across this course. I will strongly recommend this course for everyone.

It's been a very interesting course, with much to learn, and I will make sure to apply the skills I learnt to my life. I would encourage everyone to take the course, whether you are interested in literature, science, art, you name it. There are also plenty of interviews with leading experts in various fields which give insights into learning techniques, procrastination and memory.

This is an excellent course, I wish I had taken it earlier. The Coursera interface is not intuitive for me - In fact I thought I had completed the course however only realized that I hadn't when I received a request for a poll on why I didn't complete the course! I did end up finishing the course, you have to keep clicking on "next" to get past many things to get to the very end.

This course was insightful. I have experienced a paradigm shift in the way I used to understand learning. I had my set of mental blocks that prevented me from enjoying the learning process. I had reached a point in my life where learning new concepts were more of a burden. And procrastination had affected most aspects of my life. This course has changed the way I look at learning.

I would like to leave a word of appreciation to Dr. Barbara and Dr. Terrence, and Coursera, for creating a great course on learning available to anyone on the globe. I believe concepts such as chunking, the difference between focused and diffused modes, working and long-term memory, and suggestions for dealing with procrastination, will be empowering for anyone taking this course!

I can't recommend this course highly enough. It's probably the single most important course I've taken so far in anything. It doesn't require much time or effort, but the outcome is pretty mindblowing, at least for a person who is used to slave away for nothing like me. Since I've applied the learning techniques from this course, my studying has become much more effecient and fun!

First of all, thank you very much for sharing the material. It was really helpful and I feel that I benefit from it now. I have changed my approach to learn and now I keep in mind all the important thing that you have mentioned during the course. Therefore, I think I will recommend this course to everyone, who wants to improve their studying performances.

Once again, thanks a lot!

It provides me many important and new knowledge or ideas about learning based on the research result of Neuroscience. It makes me start to look at myself, my brain and what I can achieve in a new way. Nice and interesting lecture! Also you will find how this course differ from other courses on Coursera in many details, as well as how the course instructors care for their students!

It was a really interesting course, with great ideas and lots of tips to boost one's learning process. The optional interviews was a great bonus as well. What made it even more wonderful is the weekly mails I get now from the instructors of this course, Barb and Terry, with suggested books and MOOC's. So glad that I decided to join this and completed it. Thank you for creating it!

I've only finished the 1st week, yet, I can say that LH2L is very effective. My learning abilities have greatly improved. It helps a lot to understand how our brain works for a more effective learning.

It is so good that I am going to buy the book "A Mind for Numbers". Thanks Barbara Oakley, Dr. Sejnowski, and everyone else for making this course free and available to everybody :)

This course is of great benefit for all who want to learn. It gives you the very foundation that can be used for learning anything more efficiently and in accordance with the way human beings function. Amazing course, amazing optional interviews, amazing instructors and content. Deep respect and gratitude to the creators and anyone who contributed to making it and maintaining it.

This is a really great course. It is logical, practical and easy to understand. You can immediately start to apply the methods and tips introduced very early in the course. If you want to know how to learn effectively and beat bad habits like procrastination, this course is for you.  The instructors are truly world-class. They are kind and you get the sense that they really care.

This course is really important because it focuses on something which is basic and required for everything one might want to do in life or is doing in life. Humans learn all the time, being able to learn better and consciously put an effort into learning better is skill without which it is a shame and a waste of one's potential. Go through this course, it's worth it and precise.