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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 Anuj K K

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Feb 5, 2021

This course is really recommended for everyone who has completed Learning How to Learn. The instructors have sound knowledge on the subject and they combine teaching and humor to learning. This makes it ultimately fun to learn.

By Maria J D

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Aug 20, 2020

I am very thankful about this course. I learned a lot about myself (on how I learn, what can help me better when it comes to learning and understanding new skills) and somehow it made me realized how my students learn as well.

By Cody D

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May 2, 2020

This was such a delightful journey through some really fascinating subjects about learning and self-improvement. I feel so inspired and educated after taking this class, like I could tackle anything with hard work and practice.

By Aleksey G

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Apr 27, 2020

I've learned so much from this course and discovered something that i didn't even expected to find here. In overall i would like to say thank you to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for such a remarkable knowledge.

By Md. D N

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Nov 30, 2020

Thanks to professor B.O. for her again brilliant approach and presentation for this MOOC. I hope that this will help many people like me to understand their abilities and be more creative in their life. Happy learning everyone

By Joseph D

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Apr 23, 2020

This MOOC is an all rounder and recommended to people of all ages. The concepts broken down in small potions make it very easy to digest and the visual aids used make it very palpable. Kudos to the entire team for this course.

By Gabriela C

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Apr 17, 2020

Very helpful if you are struggling into finding motivation or if this is your first ever go at online learning, like me! A lot of research-based facts, fun mentors, and good content overall. A nice first experience at MOOCing.

By Christine G

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Apr 12, 2020

Love this first MOOC I have done, it really makes you think about learning styles and proposes other ideas for consideration. It really made me change my mind about some things I had taken for granted. Well worth the effort.

By Sandhya V P

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Jul 12, 2021

The course is well designed and the efforts put by the instructors to teach by using videos, graphics, interviews of people and additional resources is really appreciated. Thank you, the key concepts will definitely help us..

By Barbora H

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Jun 21, 2020

This MOOC has been so wonderful and so very valuable to me. It opened my eyes when it comes to learning and how retain as much information as possible. I am so grateful. I enjoyed the assignments, the videos and the lectures.

By shubham b

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Jun 19, 2020

Mind-shift is in Progress, It is Must for Teenagers especially and Any age group.

How You See Yourself and Brain get changed . Now Resources and View Point Comes in and Path

to Unlock Treasure during course of life get starts.

By Anupama K

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May 25, 2020

This is the best course to begin with the new journey of learning. It just gives the right motivation and inspiration to identify and kick start work on our development.

Thanks a lot Barbara and Terry for this awesome course!

By Dr F S

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Aug 18, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed this course. Drs. Oakley and Sejnowski are true subject matter experts and know how to convey complex subject matter in entertaining and understandable ways. I highly recommend this course to everyone.

By Riska B F

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Nov 12, 2020

This Mindshift course really helped me to accept that we also have to add other skills and not be stuck with just one skill. Besides that, it also made me more open minded and changed my mindset. Great, thank you very much.

By Clay S

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Apr 19, 2022

An excellent followup to Learning How to Learn.

It touches again on ideas from LHTL, and explains them in more detail using easy to understand images and metaphors.

Another excellently presented course.

Extremely helpful.

By princess s

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Feb 26, 2021

This course is very essential. It should be one of the first MOOCs you take. I was able to learn new skills and gain the confidence needed to pursue my Masters Degree. The lecturer Barbara Oakley is also really great!!!

By Kimberly L

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Aug 16, 2020

The course is very informative and interesting. It helped me see in another perspective the conventional learning methods that I have studied. It also helped me to understand other ways in improving my own learning style.

By Tushar D

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Jul 20, 2020

The course is designed and executed in very systematic way. It was very interactive and engaging. The complex topics are made easier to understand and broken in small topics to make them simpler. Tanks to Barbera and team.

By Loraine P E O

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Jul 17, 2020

Este curso fue demasiado enriquecedor para mí, me dejó muchísimas enseñanzas para mi aprendizaje futuro. Me encantó la forma de enseñar de los profesores Barbara y Terry. Quisiera volver a tener un curso virtual con ellos.

By Ola A

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May 12, 2020

It is so simple with too many things to learn. I loved the way of presenting the information. plus the length of the videos was not too long and that made it easy to understand and digest the information. thank you so much

By Hayley

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Apr 29, 2020

This re enforces the work you learned in learning to learn and then some I enjoyed doing both of them. Barbra is easy to listen to and explains things very well. I wish she had been my teacher in school. This is a must do

By Harmony E

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Oct 11, 2023

It is a very entertaining course, it uses metaphors to understand better concepts and help me see my disadvantage as an advantage. It is well explained and easy to understand and both of the professors are very engaging.

By Tuong P

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Jun 5, 2021

Excited about contents and instructors, help me to look back myself, my career. This course inspired me to take other courses that I want to learn, some things I don't have a chance when study at university. Thank a lot.

By Dinuk S

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Feb 16, 2021

This is one of the best course that i completed so far. I have a dream/ target to be an energetic, fun, active lecturer. I hope this will help me to achieve my target one day. Course content, teaching methods are great.

By Clara

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Sep 11, 2018

Barb is a great teacher, she is able to break down complex subjects in a very simple and easy to understand way.

The course gives practical tips and tools backed up by scientific evidences on how to improve your learning.