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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Learning How to Learn: Powerful mental tools to help you master tough subjects by Deep Teaching Solutions

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About the Course

This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects. Using these approaches, no matter what your skill levels in topics you would like to master, you can change your thinking and change your life. If you’re already an expert, this peep under the mental hood will give you ideas for turbocharging successful learning, including counter-intuitive test-taking tips and insights that will help you make the best use of your time on homework and problem sets. If you’re struggling, you’ll see a structured treasure trove of practical techniques that walk you through what you need to do to get on track. If you’ve ever wanted to become better at anything, this course will help serve as your guide. This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or prior to, its companion course, Mindshift. (Learning How to Learn is more learning-focused, and Mindshift is more career-focused.) A related course by the same instructors is Uncommon Sense Teaching. To join the fully translated Portuguese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprender To join the fully translated Spanish version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprendiendo-a-aprender To join the fully translated Chinese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ruhe-xuexi To join the fully translated French version of the course, visit : http://www.coursera.org/learn/apprendre-comment-apprendre...

Top reviews

EJ

Aug 25, 2023

This is course is so helpful it will debunk all the false beliefs and the wrong thing that you're doing in your life. It will also help you to understand your brain, that will make you a good learner.

BK

Sep 23, 2016

Very useful. Explained how the brain - mind and memory - works, and showed techniques for learning more effectively. Wish I'd known about this stuff while I actually went to high-school and college!

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By Michael S

Mar 9, 2019

Awesome! Learned a lot!!! Super helpful. Everyone should take this course. The lessons are simple, easy and effective and prepares you for the future!

By Dylan C

Feb 18, 2019

A great course that allowed me to understand the back-end to our brains and how we learn. A must for anyone wanting to improve their learning and life

By Adriel L

Oct 6, 2018

If I only knew about all the techniques involved during my younger days. I would have certainly become a professor by now! A great course nonetheless!

By Falah K N

Jun 24, 2018

Great ! Really makes me open minded about learning itself. I hope I can apply all the methods from this course to my learning style. Happy Learning :)

By Praktijk N V E

Apr 16, 2018

I learned so much from the psychological, mental and neurological side of learning; it was really a bright time of 'aha'- moments! Thanks for sharing!

By Thales P

Oct 26, 2017

Really good course that gives some good insights on how to increase productivity and it's very helpful for those who want to start doing only courses.

By Guojun R

Jun 12, 2017

This course is useful for those who want to learn new things in their future life. If you want learn more efficiently and effectively, then choose it.

By Brian S

Jun 4, 2017

An excellent, quick course for improving your ability to learn effectively. This needs to be taught early in schools because it is extremely valuable!

By Aarón A P

Jun 1, 2017

It was my first MOOC ever. I am happy about that because it gave me the techniques that now I am using to learn faster and better. 100% recommended :D

By Sungho M

May 20, 2017

this is the best course that I have in Coursera classes and I changed my mind to learn about how my brain is working with learning about how to learn.

By CARLOS S

Mar 6, 2017

I describe it as a simple but at the same time powerful course. Provides the basic foundations and methods to learn better and more effective. Thanks!

By Alexis A

Feb 9, 2017

Simple and so useful tools that you can use for any subjects and helps you any some many aspects in life. Short, well done, engaging. Thank you for it

By David M

Dec 30, 2016

Every educator should take this course. It's implications for teaching practices are invaluable, not to mention its helpfulness for personal learning.

By Nilay T

Sep 22, 2016

A Really wonderful and well thought course. Already started implementing some of the tips and getting results. Thanks a lot to Authors of this course.

By Lana M

Jan 31, 2016

I recommend this course to everyone, it is effective for every type of learning. From knitting to rocket science and of course everything in between.

By Leencol L

Jan 13, 2016

I love the professors! It's the course everyone should take! I hope that schools will formally teach this sometime in the future. It's really helpful.

By Gerardo O V

Dec 30, 2015

An extraordinary MOOC, very helpful, seriously it changes my perspective of learning mode.

I'm sorry for a couple of activities that I didn't complete.

By SHREYA S

Dec 17, 2015

It's an interesting course that would motivate you to reach your full potential. I am thankful to Coursera for making this course available. Loved it!

By Daniel D

Nov 18, 2015

Barbara - you are amazing! What an incredible resource you have put together and shared with the world!! I'm now a HUGE fan of anything that you do!

By Luis Q

Nov 3, 2015

This has been one of the best course that I ever made, I loved from the beginnings til the end. Thanks to the team of the course for all.

Best regards.

By Charles C Y

Oct 18, 2015

Very interesting course that can help improve how you learn. I definitely recommend reading the optional text "A Mind for Numbers" by Barbara Oakley.

By Johanna I

Oct 15, 2015

I like the course very much, because it is not just completely understandable and logical structured,but it gives a lot of useful advices. Thank you!!

By Tran T

Oct 4, 2015

I learn a lot from this course.

The dicussion below each video, it's useful. Through dicussion, it's easy to get deep understood the course.

Thanks you!

By Juan S U

Sep 18, 2015

It is an excelent course for learning the principles of how works our brain it also gives some interesting and helpfull tools for learning any subject

By Olga Z

Aug 26, 2015

Its's a very helpful course for those who want to understand for better learning how memory works .

The main challenge now is to use those technics! :)