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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 Puteri B S

Aug 29, 2020

This course is great for those of you who want to understand yourself and help you answer the questions that you often ask yourself. How to find hidden potential in yourself and expand your passion with fun explanations accompanied by science.

By Whitney F

Jun 8, 2020

This course was very easy to tune into, as the videos were short, sharp and often contained images and live examples to help retain the learning. The short quizzes at the end of each video were also helpful in remembering important discussions

By Maura V

May 31, 2020

Congratulations to the teachers , for making this course so entertaining and valuable, It encourages anyone regardless of age , gender, profession to continue learning even from our mistakes at answer

Some exam questions.

GRATEFUL TO THE TEAM.

By Ganesha B

Mar 9, 2018

This course was great! So inspired to just keep learning for the rest of my life. I'm putting it into practice already and can honestly say I feel the effects of a healthier active brain already. Highly recommend this to anyone at all, period.

By Karim A

Jun 13, 2020

What a beautiful and a positively impactful course indeed! I will truly will be forever grateful to have stumbled upon this course and to have taken it! Thank you so very much Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terry Sejnowski for this masterpiece!!!

By Ziva A

Jun 26, 2020

Great course! This was an excellent topic and a great presentation of all related subjects. I know this will help me in my professional life. I look forward to implementing some of the tips to meditating, learning and advancing my career.

By JOANNA L

May 12, 2020

It was an amazing course. It helped me feel confident again, age is not a barrier in learning and developing skills. Barbara was fantastic in delivering the course. I no longer feel bad for being a slow learner. Thank you, very much Barbara

By Richard M

May 6, 2020

This course help me to handle the Covid-19 lockdown and besides that motivated me to accomplish new MOOCs trainings in more complex subjets (Machine Learning, AI, etc ) So i can put in practice those new tools learned in the MINDSHIFT course

By Joy P

Apr 29, 2020

An eye opening MOOC. Very informative and resourceful. All the tools suggested are available to you, if you choose to try. I would recommend this MOOC to anyone attempting to learn. Engaging teachers. Very much enjoyed taking this MOOC.

By Martina C S

Mar 31, 2020

Ótimo curso! Simples, objetivo e muito claro, nos ensina conceitos importantes na arte de aprender e continuar em aprendizado constante, não importando a idade ou o objetivo final. Professores excelentes, material excelente. Super recomendo!

By Dahl R

Feb 18, 2018

I loved the way it was structured. I've learned new ways to learn and to approach things. I already bought the book related to this course because I enjoyed it so much. I'm thinking on taking this course again and purchasing the certificate.

By Mbwana I

Jun 14, 2020

The great course and perhaps what a learner needs to pass through whenever passing through challenges, external feedbacks and discouraging moments along learning path. It's really a way of unleashing any learning potential. Happy Mindshift.

By Ting T W

May 3, 2020

I loved this course. I found it really useful to learn about "learning" which you might think is a very basic skill that you don't have to learn. I can apply a lot of the skills I learnt from this course to my job and continue learning a

By Patrick Z

Jun 23, 2020

I had a wonderful time with this course. I learned so much from it like that it's important have an open mind and keep learning, the values of a poor memory, and much more. The list goes on! Thanks to Barbara and Terry for a great course!

By JOÃO E

Apr 23, 2020

The course has thought me how to be more confident in making my decisions in studying and career life. I also learnt that studying is a lifelong learning, maybe forever. I highly recommend it because taking a MOOC like that is worthwhile.

By Lizeth P R

Feb 10, 2021

i think the way that both teachers explain the mooc is amazing, always was focused, never boring and they keep your atention, im a procastinator and i work weekly in this project, i think is the beginning of new stage of learning for me.

By Anna R

Apr 26, 2020

Well-prepared and executed course - teachers are friendly and materials they are teaching is useful in daily life basic. Highly recommend it, as it motivates you to change sth in your life and gives you the necessary tools to execute it.

By ED C A

Oct 22, 2020

I love the insights in this course. It's very helpful to take just in general because the techniques thought can be applied in general situations. Also really appreciate the instructors, they just foster a good environment for learning.

By Sakif A

Jul 28, 2020

I really loved how this course is made. The content creator really put their best effort into making this course. The course gave me the confidence to pursue my other interest. Dr. Oakley's stories inspired me to change my carrier path.

By David S

Feb 20, 2018

Very nice course on introduction to learning and how to learn better. Also covers overcoming procrastination and emotional obstacles we have. The course covers some research on the subject and also teaches a few memorization techniques.

By Arun B K

Nov 8, 2017

I just wished this was available 10 years ago, the result would have been a much more fuller life for me.

Amazing course, really helps you mind shift in terms of learning, career and life choices.

A must for everyone seeking improvement.

By Jacqueline O M

May 16, 2022

Me gustó mucho...Siempre he creido que no hay edad para volver a estudiar y corregir lo que no se estudió ni se aprendió bien!! Y actualizar los conocimientos...Porque el mundo se renueva cada día...y te vas quedando atras..........

By rajat D

Apr 14, 2020

i thoroughly enjoyed this beautifully created course . the teacher could make understand complex ideas using simple metaphors . i finish this course with optimism about my future .

thanks to the teachers , mcMaster university & coursera

By Arash N

Feb 15, 2022

Hello teachers, To be honest, this course was amazing. I really appreciate you for all of your thrives, materials and your mechanism for learning are helpful and so easy to understand. Thank you so much. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️❤️❤️

By Annisa K

Jul 7, 2020

This course truly helped me to be a better version of me, right now I always see something positively and always willing to actively learn something new so as I can gain more knowledge and skills that can be very useful in the future.