I really love this course. I enjoy learning very much, but after taking this course, I think I can learn new things effectively. I also love the Competence of Illusion of Competence Chapter, for so much things I think I master it, I actually know only the basic and I am on my way to improve that. Thank you!

The concepts mentioned about the diffused and focused mode are just brilliant and a must try. Education would have been so better if someone had taught the concepts taught here. Really good course to learn no matter the age and field you are in. I wish colleges and schools teach this course before anything.

I've never valued tests, nor flash cards, nor anything that I perceived as gimmicky learning tools. Learning was just learning. But I was wrong.

Understanding your cognitive behavior and how memories and knowledge are formed has helped me grasp learning in a new intuitive way.

I highly recommend the course!

It was my first course at coursera and hopefully not the last one! Many thanks for all of the makers, participants, professors, researchers. I learned a lot of excellent techniques, read, saw, heard a lot of great and inspiring stories. I think I've learned much from you guys!

My best regards,

Andrew Rákóczy

It provides an essential understanding of how the brain operates when learning, explained in a very pedagogical way, and it gives tools to maximize your learning in every sense. Extremely interesting and useful, I enjoyed it A LOT, I'm successfully using the techniques and telling everyone to do it as well!

YAY! My first online course done with learning how to learn! Well done will use this to chunk the other upcoming online courses. This will serve as basic and fundamental of learning everything I want to learn on the rest of courses. Keep learning effectively for life and explore the world of passion. Kudos!

Very good course, It lets you know how you should really learn any thing very effectively, I appreciate the teachers who made it possible to reach individuals, Dr. Barbara Oakley is now my one of the best teacher and Dr. Terrance Sejnowski thank you for sharing valuable information and your great knowledge.

What a course, what a teachers. The best subject and course that I do in my entire life. Definitely recommend. All of the course is based on science and proofs and the teachers are really kind and smart. I want to have one day the Barbara kindness that even not knowing her personally I can feel. Thank you!

This course has helped me gain some of the most valuable skills I will ever have. The things taught in this course relate to many different parts of life and I will be able to use this knowledge in many different ways. I have come to understand my brain better and I wish I had known these things years ago!

I initially took this course to prepare me to study my degree again as I want to shift career soon. I was able to use the techniques I learned from this course in studying online and in learning new things at work. Thank you so much to Dr. Barbara Oakley, Dr. Terrence Sejnowski and to the rest of the team!

I love it, the lessons on this course got my attention always, there was never a boring lesson to watch and learn from. If you guys want to improve your skill in learning, this course is the one for you. Thank you for this great content, I will share my knowledge on "learning how to learn" to others. Kudos

It was a great course to learn the proper techniques needed for learning in every field and to learn a little about human psychology. I loved the procrastination part because that is the portion in which a person suffers daily .So,to know how to overcome the sense of procrastination is a great thing to do.

Excellent course! Enjoyed learning how to learn. While auditing this course I learned great new techniques how to learn and got the idea of what I was doing wrong before. The great thing about this course is that it allows you to learn while progressing through the course by giving you a lot of mini tasks.

There are some really useful tips for learning efficiently, avoiding procrastination and changing habits that can be applied not only to learning but also to everyday life. I found the lectures very enjoyable and interesting ,as well as the optional extra videos. I highly recommend this course to everyone.

Exceptional tools for life-long learners to use in our journey. Also, it dispelled some learning practices, such as excessive use of highlighting, which can cause illusions of competence. Thank you Barb and Terry for sharing your wisdom and insights and for sharing video interviews of other great learners.

This course was excellent! I learned so much and am already using what I learned in my studies of language and guitar. Thank you to Drs. Oakley and Sejnowski and to Coursera for making this course available. I'm also loving Dr. Oakley's book, "A Mind for Math." She's a great writer and engaging instructor!

One of the few learning skills courses to really hit home. It's not that many new concepts were introduced; so much as that a better understanding of the cognitive and/or neurological processes underlying familiar methods clarified their usefulness and gave them a new importance to me. Very helpful course!

I loved it. I learned a lot, but more than that I ENJOYED a lot. Of course, that in turn helped me learn even deeper. I enjoyed the lessons and the presentation style. And I really loved all the interviews that were optional. I hope to be able to rewatch/relisten to those over and over. Thank you again. :)

It is a great course. I have learned why some techniques are better than others (recall vs highlighting) and how can I learn more effective. But it's not (only) about techniques and tricks. This course explain HOW 'learning' works and WHY it is important to learn effective (see the illusion of competence).

This course was super helpful for enhancing my learning capabilities! The instructors teach you so many valuable techniques that can be applied to almost any area of your life. If you are a student or just someone looking to better themselves and learn new things, take this course. You will not regret it.

It was one of the best courses I've taken, I will recommend it to my students and colleagues, it's simple, practical, and enjoyable. It can benefit anyone in any field. Thanks for Dr.Barbara Oakley,  Dr.Terrence Sejnowski, and deep teaching solutions. I'll be always in searching for courses like this one.

This course has really helped me understand why I never retain much of what I have learned. I have so many new techniques for committing concepts to memory. I was already seeing great results with these techniques before I was through with the course. I plan on teaching this to my children immediately.

I took up this course out of curiosity... the course is presented in a very intriguing manner, and it boosted my interest in learning. I am grateful to the course team to introduce me to some great minds through the interviews in the optional videos... Looking forward to learning something new each day :)

muchas felicitaciones por este curso y a todas personas que se involucran en el tema muy interesante y muy productivo si me ayuda mucho en mi trabajo y en casa también y lo voy a recomendar a mis amigos no me decir un excelente curso gracias por todo seguiremos estudiando mas cursos todos son muy buenos.

It was my best experiance with some brilliant teacher staff. I learnt many different best techniques to learn something in a new and best creative way to reach toward the solution. Now i am able to teach the course to other collegues as well who are finding it difficult in learning how to learn. Thanks!!!