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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

DI

Oct 30, 2020

Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

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By Nahian T

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Jun 10, 2020

This course was very interesting and helpful for me. It made me realise that I do not need to keep myself occupied with my discipline only , rather try other things too. Thank you so much.

By Daniela A

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Apr 26, 2020

Me encanto. Te dan herramientas muy poderosas para el desarrollo de lo que quieras aprender, sin fustrarte, y si pasa te enselan que esta bien, pero siempre podes aprender a cualquier edad

By Cynthia G

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Apr 14, 2020

I find the course engaging and insightful. It's a good start in getting back to learning. Concepts are easily broken down into actionable items. Overall, I am very pleased with the course.

By Maria L

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Jan 9, 2019

It was a very helpful course with useful information and very nicely delivered by the lecturers, a persuasive advertisement for continuous learning and massive open online courses as well!

By Benjamin O

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Dec 31, 2018

Excellent MOOC dans la continuité de "Learning How to Learn". Encore plus de contenus et d'astuces. Un MOOC incontournable pour les personnes souhaitant apprendre tout au long de leur vie.

By Benedikt K

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Mar 7, 2018

Wonderful course to build upon the basis from learning how to learn. The course expands on these basics and places it within the bigger context of your life and the environment we live in.

By Yasir R

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Oct 18, 2020

I really really appreciate the constructors of this course. They done a great job. I loved the videos quality sounds everything was perfect . It was interesting and very good I love them.

By Giemhel G

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May 18, 2020

The instructors are entertaining, easy to understand, and knows what they are doing. The course literally opened my mind in different perspectives and I am excited to my future endeavors!

By STEFANO C

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Dec 27, 2019

This remarkable course opens the chance to reset your point of view of what our skills and potential are defined for and it definetely offers us possibilities to change and perform better

By Desired C

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Oct 21, 2018

Learned many new ideas and relearned old ones. I only wished that I could speed up some of the areas of the video that I already knew and slow down the parts I didn’t, in a perfect world.

By Lexie G

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Jan 17, 2018

I have been soaking in every word of this MOOC. Thank you so much, Barbara and Terrence! I really think that this class is a milestone for me. I feel so much hope and incredibly inspired!

By Alexandra T

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Jan 17, 2018

Absolutely AWESOME! I learned a lot, the teacher was great and explained everything wonderfully. I finish the course with a feeling of positivism and happiness. I absolutely recommend it!

By NUR N Z A

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Jan 21, 2022

Everyone should take this course. Even if you already know most things. I'd revisit my notes and the videos to this course. Invaluable. I absolutely love the instructors especially Barb

By Azmi K

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Mar 28, 2021

Once again Barb and Terry have done it! They've given me an opportunity to value deeply how "learning" can improve one's and society's quality of life. I thank them deeply from my heart.

By Mustafa M

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May 18, 2020

This course is exceptionally well delivered and i learnt a lot of new things such as how our brain's potential can be unlocked by a few simple techniques that every can do by themselves.

By Daria K

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May 16, 2020

The course encompasses rich valuable up-to-date relevant body of knowledge. Presenters are knowledgable, skilled engaged, open.Supporting, interesting, intriguing, funny tests and polls.

By Ricardo U P

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Apr 26, 2020

At first it maight seem like a simple course, yet the more you progress thru it the insight you get from it. its' been quite some time since a MOOC felt so close to home. A great choice.

By Odysseas C

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Jun 3, 2018

Amazing course that anyone should take, in whatever age, career, or stage of their life they are. Positive, inspiring and very informative it will make you develop a new mindset in life.

By Juan R P G

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Aug 20, 2017

This course is amazing and I strongly recommend to take it together with the Learning How To Learn course. This course will give you tools and techniques to improve your career and life.

By Lisa J

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Mar 9, 2023

Excellent course that delved into our learning and gave solutions to overcome things that hinder us. I appreciated the candidness of Dr. Barbara Oakley. Her journey is very encouraging.

By Glue Y

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Mar 9, 2023

this is the most well designed and comprehensive MOOC that I had now. It actually has concepts that are important to us but we skip or ignore. These are actually the essentials if life.

By Katlyn C

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Aug 15, 2022

It is a life-changing course. it helps me shift my mindset about learning. This MOOC has given me the confidence to learn other skills or topics even if I can only be mediocre about it.

By Nendra N W

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Dec 1, 2020

Mindshift has broadened my perspectives and is certainly a course to take to enrich your life. Mindshift provides you with new insights that are valuable and beneficial for any learner.

By Manjot S

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Apr 17, 2020

This was the first MOOC and really enjoyed the learning experience of this one. Professor Barbara was a great instructor as well as teacher and the topics were really very much amazing.

By Tom T

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Apr 8, 2020

This is very useful class if you want to have BIG change in your mind and life! The teachers are very storytelling and passionate about this course. You will want to know about Barbara!