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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 Wankaew

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May 11, 2020

This is my first course ( I've never experienced online course or Coursera before) and it's amazing! It's changed my view. I am impressed with this course.

By Grace M

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Sep 15, 2022

Thank you for the course! The materials are easy to understand and logical. I highly appreciate the way the professors are trying to make the course fun.

By Hua Y

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Jul 4, 2020

Great course: The ideas are illuminating, the professors are very engaging, and I've benefitted a lot from it! Thank you for offering such a useful course

By Sri M

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Jun 17, 2020

one of the best courses ever i followed and usefull for my career and life..highly appreciate for the instructurs anad all the material course..thank you

By kirti j

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May 17, 2020

An amazing course. Helped a lot in understanding and exploring new things about how one can have a happy mind shift.

Thank you so much! loved it completely

By Abdul M A R

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Apr 30, 2020

very interesting concepts discussed here! Mostly it just made me excited about the topics I look forward to learning of which I was intimidated by before.

By Phuong L

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Sep 22, 2022

I love every single video in this course. It gives me a little knowledge each time that making me think & digest slowly till I can be delighten by this.

By Salai G

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Dec 10, 2021

Thanks for the topics. I am currently struggling with my new learning . This course find me easier to take some kind of tips and tricks to be encouraged.

By girish s

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Jan 26, 2021

very nicely designed course. lots to learn on different subjects with age no bar. very nice tutor. Thank you so much Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence.

By Ricardo L

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Nov 16, 2020

FELICIDADES, ME SIENTO MUY SATISFECHO POR HABER TOMADO ESTE MOOC, GRACIAS A BARB AND TERRENCE, LO RECOMENDARE AMPLIAMENTE.

ESPERO TENGAN UNO NUEVO PRONTO.

By Vasileios-Orestis S

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Sep 8, 2020

A great course that helped me realize the importance of concepts around lifelong learning, career changing, and many more. I recommend anyone to take it.

By Charu M

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May 10, 2020

This course is very nice and important . I have learnt many things imposter syndrome etc All mentors were knowledgeable and had good teaching techniques

By Alexey A

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Sep 24, 2017

Good course if you thinking about changing your professional career, facing some troubles at study and even just like to acquire new skills and knowledge

By Simple C

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Mar 2, 2022

Great content and teachers. I took this MOOC inmedately after "Learnong how to learn" and it was perfect to enhance previous material and know new one.

By Nagaraja M S

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Aug 6, 2021

I love it,

There are many takeaways from this course, am surely applying some of the learnings in my life.

I have shared the link to many of my friends.

By Ramon R

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Feb 19, 2021

Mindshift is the continuation of "Learning how to learn" . It introduces many new concepts and tricks useful for your career or life. highly recommended

By Kaniz F Z

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Jun 30, 2020

It is a really great MOOC. Looking forward to get such more MOOCs.Thanks Barbara And Terry.You guys put in a lot of efforts and it actually means a lot.

By mahendra

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Jun 3, 2020

This is very great course. I think recommend everyone to enroll in this course. You are going to learn lots of techniques to learn anything very easily.

By Lyndon J W

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May 25, 2020

A really great MOOC for helping understand the key aspects of learning and how everyone has a hidden potential to do better as long as they are willing.

By Ji H

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Apr 16, 2020

This course introduces not only new concepts that faciliate my mindshifting, but also real techniques to implement in my professional and personal life.

By Biplab G

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Apr 13, 2020

I highly appreciate the efforts the instructors have put in this course. Really enjoyed and understood the mindshift to achieve a high level of success.

By Jose H

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Nov 18, 2019

This was such an awesome and inspirational course. I'm sure that with this + LHTL, I'll have a wide array of tools to tackle various aspects of my life.

By NIRMALA

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Jul 1, 2019

Excellent course! I love the contents: texts, videos and memory tips bonus! Very instructive and inspiring! Thank you so much for this fantastic course!

By Felipe C

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Sep 27, 2021

Excellent course. I am positively impressed. I wish I had learned this in high school because my learning life would have been so much more successful.