I loved this course. I am trying to somehow "escape" from my current job and focus on learning a new subject. As I found myself struggling, I decided to take this course first and I believe I made the rightest choice. Thank you Drs! You have been great! With your kind way there were times I felt you next to me telling me "everything can happen, just relax, focus and let it flow".

It should be mandatory to have this type of material as part of a regular curriculum in the earlier years of a student path. This course shows, with a rigorous foundation, the way we learn and how we can improve ourselves with different techniques. I liked that through the course it was emphasized that we can, with a positive attitude and perseverance, achieve what we truly love!

Life Tranforming Material: Highly Qualified, Very well Trained Instructors ,They have done brilliant work in producing this course.This course is filled with enormous amount of authentic research.I am an academician who had lost touch with learning with a fresh eye have got new perspective.Highly recommended to all Teachers,Professors and everyone who wants to learn How to learn.

I enjoyed the course and especially the tone set by Dr Oakley who maintained high quality and a light spirit throughout the teachings. I loved the way things came together for me as an older person and how they reinforced old ideas from the past. Well done to the team and to Coursera. If it wasn't Covid-19 time and my business limping, I would have purchased the course willingly.

This was a great class to learn how your brain functions, how YOU learn best, as well as a few tips and tricks for test-taking. Barbara Oakley was a wonderful professor in this series - she used tricks throughout the sessions to make sure you were learning while you went through the course. She also sent out loads of resources to follow up and dive into. I would highly recommend!

I can't help but imagine a world where everyone know how to learn properly. So many people have dropped out of school or simply neglected their education during all their lives because they feel anxious and ultimately hate it. Imagine if they did not need to feel like that as much, as this course teaches us. How many brilliant ideas and scientists and ideas would have flourished?

I completed this course!

Coming to this course with some initial doubts, I ended up learning more than expected. There were times that I thought I would not continue the course due to my hectic schedule. However, Dr. Oakley is a great teacher, as she always managed to inspire and instil the thirst for knowledge in me. Can't thank her enough for sharing her useful pieces of wisdom.

One of the best short courses available for learning how to learn, I love all the new tools that you have enabled me to use. I am looking forward to my new adventure and tackling a diploma, and now feel confident with the learning process and best I can apply this to my new course. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you. Only one more word to describe the experience I have undertaken.

It has helped me , because I want to be a better student. I'm studying engineering and I want to do well in my career , but I find it difficult and I think that if I follow the advice of this course , I can do it better. I would also like to improve my English ( I am from Spain ) and practice a little every day with the pomodoro technique . Thank you so much, you helped me a lot.

I really enjoyed this course. This course is a great blend of neuroscience and actual learning tactics and principles. Both Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski present solid information in a casual yet informed manner and make staying on the course very interesting. I find the techniques described very useful for any endeavor that requires focused learning for a lifetime. Excellent!

The course provide me a new concept and knowledge of learning and giving me a new mindset in order to gain new materials. Beside that, I understand that the success which is not achieved by talent or smart, but is from the perseverance and the right methodology of learning. Therefore, become a master is the long-term process, not only focusing the product. Many thanks teachers.

I found this course highly useful, in that it helped me understand better and efficient methods of learning. It goes in depth upon some important effects of sleep in learning. The neuroscience behind learning was crucial in understanding why the methods work. I would certainly practice these techniques to enhance memory and retention. I also liked the chunk creation section.

Course is extermly useful and effective .. the used technique is so engaging and helpful ... truly lucky to ge inrolled in this programe , i have finished Learn how to learn and i am so excited to start the second part of the course Mindshifting , great technique in teaching is being used & the investment in such course is totaly worth it :)

Happy learning everyone :)

Tarek Moazeb

Wish I had gone through this when I started college. My recommendation is to use Anki and create question-like notes for this course and use the practice of spaced repetition to solidify this learnings. Another option would be to review this course once a year! If you're in college, do it before the start of each semester to refresh this ideas and go in with a strong foundation!

I learnt a lot from the course and feel more confident now tackling new areas. The understanding of focused and diffused mode of learning is especially meaningful to me. I can now link my behaviours/ actions / outcome to make learning more effective. These are also a lot of good practical techniques that i want to apply and use. Thank you for making this course so easy to learn.

It is very general and basic, which is a good quality for courses like this. The concepts are explained in a very simple and broad manner that makes it easy to understand and apply in any discipline. The important concepts are highlighted really well by being concise and repeating it over multiple videos that I still remember them even if I have only watched all the videos once.

A great insight towards how the brain is a beautiful and exquisite intermingle of complexity and at the same time simplicity. The techniques mentioned in the course are really helpful towards enhancing the productivity of the brain and the concepts provided puts light on not only the cause of the daily shortcomings faced by many people but also how to tackle these shortcomings.

Great course. All the tools that are proposed can be used ASAP therefore you area able to see how using this strategies work. Also I loved the fact that I had an explanation of how does this strategies work on a neurological level. I had been told to use certain techniques but I was doubtful and did not tried them before, now I have learned also to give myself a chance to do it.

This course has been my company during my morning commute to work and I couldn't be happier.

The videos are easy to watch, the information is easy to retain and there are funny jokes along the way.

Thank you so much for your work, I learned many techniques to improve my learning capacity and I understand better how the brain works! It made me curious to learn more about our brain.

So far, I really like the Course. I think Barbara and Terrence are really nice. I liked it very much, that Barbara told us a bit about her life. It showed me that it is never to late to start with something new.

I also like they way they explain things. Really simple and very understandable. I am pretty sure I will apply a lot of things. I am looking forward to the next Session.

Provides practical and applicable insights into how the physiology of the brain impacts learning. You learn what the brain is doing when you study, and how to maximize your study time. This course greatly aided my retention and understanding for my comprehensive exams in law. Strongly recommended for anyone interested in learning, whether in math, science, humanities, or law.

I think this lesson is quite different from the others, for it offers some new methods of how to learn better ,which I have not heard before. Surprisingly, it gives us quite a lot of information about the relationship between our learning skills and architecture of our brains.I think this lesson matters a lot in my whole life, for I am always learning new things on my life way.

I wish I had discovered this course before I graduated from my university. It took me a while to discover by trial and error some of the concepts from the course which would make my university time much more productive and some of the concepts were totally new to me. I hope other people will be more lucky than I was and will discover and incorporate this much earlier in life :)

The course is introduces you to many practice techniques to improve your learning. The potential field application is extremely broad and I think that this is why its the most popular course. I think it would be helpful to improve upon the practical area of the course by having things like "ok pause this video and go exercise" to really embed the suggestions into us students.

I expected to learn a bunch of study strategies from this course but instead, I've learned how our brains work, and it especially helped in building mindfulness and positive thinking, not just learning a new subject.Although those study strategies are definitely useful while learning a new subject, the whole course's material is applicable to the concept of learning in general.