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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

LV

Apr 30, 2020

I enjoyed this MOOC. It is very well-done and clearly covers the topics of mindshifting along with career advancement. Also--good illustrations and visuals/sounds which assist in the learning process.

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.

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By ARIEL V D L C

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Aug 31, 2020

This Mindshift course is very useful and helpful in learning tool that opens doors and widens my horizon into learning something new, It views me on appreciating my negative qualities and experiences to accept and enhance myself personally and professionally .

By Ayesha f

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Aug 31, 2020

This course transformed me into a more confident and enthusiastic learner. Ths course is one of the best courses that focuses of self developement as well as career development . Now I am proud of my flaws and bad habits and I am looking forward to mindshift .

By LOPEZ R T E

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Jul 22, 2020

It was a good course, a great follow up to Learning how to learn, it reforce and give some extra topics on how to learn more effectively, if you have time and want to know more you can take this to larn about the process of making MOOC´s and other cool stuff.

By Maria I V

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Sep 19, 2018

It's a great course. It is the perfect complement of Learning how to learn. I really enjoy the teachers because they explain the subjects in a way every body can understand. Thanks to them and the course I change my way of learning and even my life. I LOVE IT

By HUNG M H

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Jul 10, 2020

Thank you for providing this helpful course, I learned a lot from it. From now on, I will use what I have learned from this course when I am learning, and correct my incorrect notion from now on. The most important is I feel more confident after this course!

By Shahrzad N

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Jun 3, 2018

The Mindshift Course was excellent, full of interesting and useful points. I really enjoyed every moment of it. I am going to watch some of the videos again and take notes.

Thank you so much dear professors, specially Barb Oakley . You are a great teacher!

By Carla B

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Jan 13, 2018

Highly recommended course to anyone who is feeling discouraged with started their career or even going through a career transition. This MOOC teaches you the value of learning and shows some really good insight on how to be more effective with your learning.

By Yenecxy O

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Sep 15, 2022

Me ENCATO, me ayudo mucho al verme correctamente sin menospreciarme, incluso me ayudo a seguir mis sue;os e ir mas alla de ello, simpre siendo realistas, y como podemos desbloquear nuestra mente a un grado que tu mismo te esforzaras por ser mejor persona.

By Polina L

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May 24, 2020

I would like to thank the team for marvelous course! Mindshift is my first course in Coursera which allowed me to structurize my knowledge about learning, knew some useful technics but the most important - this course encouraged me to learn more new things.

By Manish K P

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Apr 19, 2020

This is a must have course. It does not matter who you are or what you are trying to achieve. If you take this mooc it will definitely help you tremendously in your life. Basic Idea behind this course us how easy it is for us to do a mindshift in our life.

By BIKRAMJIT K

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May 16, 2021

I am already a lifelong learner, but this course has taught me the ways of learning, how learning can be made fun, deeper, and creative to discover the true potential. I really enjoyed the way of teaching by the Instructors. Thanks for creating the course.

By Paras M

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May 30, 2020

This course talks about all the difficulties and worries one may face in life when the person does a mind-shift. The good part is this it gives solutions and techniques, which actually works. Most importantly the whole course is very engaging and relaxing.

By Janice R

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Feb 12, 2021

This course is a great course to change your mindset about yourself, life, how you think about yourself and your work. It is great to use the tools given to have a better life and breakthrough in areas that have not been paid attention to about yourself.

By Sheila G

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Aug 13, 2020

Mindshift has sparked in me the desire to learn and keep taking more MOOCs to advance/change my career. I really enjoyed Barbara and would enlist in any other course she decided to teach. Well crafted and conveyed and always kept me motivated to complete.

By Jakeson Q

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May 29, 2020

A real mind shift and an eye-opener for me; I gained a lot taking this short course. It's worthwhile that I've shared my learning with my wife and applied an immediate effect to redirect my passion-reality, private and career path altogether in one place.

By Analia S

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May 17, 2018

I´ve found the course inspirational, motivating and easy to follow. It´s very well organized and crammed with new ideas. The instructors are amazing. I ´m a life-long learner and this MOOC has made me reflect on my personal and professional develpment.

By Rocio d P P H

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Sep 2, 2024

Util, lleno de información, con una excelente bibliografia. Barbara es muy agradablem sin dejar la profundidad de sus conocimientos. Los videos son cortos, lo que permite mayor atención, las lecturasy videos complementarios interesantes, muy buen mooc

By stelakamba@hotmail.com

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Feb 14, 2023

I truly found Barbara Oakley especially, engaging, fascinating, and dedicated to making her students understand the material at hand bit by bit. Grateful for this course and this journey. I definitely have been impacted by her teaching style and methods!

By Allan M

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Jan 16, 2021

I enjoyed and learned some useful things from this course, and was reminded of things I haven't thought about for a long time. A good refresher/primer for thinking about how to approach learning before diving into other MOOCs (in my case technical ones).

By Verónica O J

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Sep 23, 2020

Like "Learnig how to learn", it´s a wonderfull MOOC. Have a lot of processes on your brain that we don´t understand and it´s really helpfull to know about that. Have a lot of tips to have a better physical and mental health. Thank you about the feedback!

By Kiran M M

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May 2, 2020

Thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for Mindshift. It was a wonderful course. One of the interesting things it taught me is to broaden my skills rather than those that are my passion. I am actively working on it. Thank you so much :)

By Rogério C

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Oct 6, 2017

The course is excellent! Anyone who wishes to pursue a path of continuous improvement in their development will benefit greatly from the content addressed here. Give yourself the means for your own personal and professional development: take this course!

By VISHWA S

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May 7, 2020

This is the best MOOC I have ever learned. Professor Barbara Oakley is a very engaging person. One thing I just wanted to suggest is that the quality of videos could have been better. I just love this course. Thank you so much, Coursera and Mindshift.

By Katherine T

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Mar 9, 2021

Truly amazing! Even though I am a middle age lifelong learner already, this pushed my boundaries of what I thought possible for myself. I learned loads and also reframed some of the issues I had with topics I always wanted to learn, but struggled with.

By Chairman M

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Jun 28, 2020

Perfect Course for anyone Willing to learn how to Shift from Old methods of learning to up to date ways of thinking and learning and understanding material and careers in life in a great way that would be highly influential to your present and future .