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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 #WALKRoberto P

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May 6, 2019

YO quiero agradecer a TODOS los profesores e investigadores que crearon este curso! Me han dado confianza `para seguir. Brillante y muy buena suerte con los que vengan! Estoy MUY FELIZ DE HABERLO realizado!

By Fu S K

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Aug 4, 2020

This course is amazing and I gain much more understanding on myself when it comes to learning. More importantly, the course is beautifully designed in a way that you can gain some valuable insights at ease.

By Bashishta N

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Jul 28, 2020

In starting looks pretty normal , slowly it was having quite practical aspect of deal with natural issue being faced by me in day to day work . Its very energetic and superbly explained. I like and enjoyed.

By Muhammad A U B

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Jul 7, 2020

What a great course to me it has been! Thank you McMaster University and Coursera for offering me this course. Having completed the course I learnt many more things and pinpointed my shortfalls in learning.

By Amitabh S

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May 9, 2020

Mandatory! Yes that is what this course should be for any subject or skill one needs to learn. Gratitude and Thanks to Barb and Terry alongwith the Mindshift team for providing me these tools. Thanks again

By Paulina O

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Feb 11, 2020

A great way to change my mind and to open it to a new possibilities, I loved it, it´s so dynamic and easy to understand with the marvelous teachers and their knowledge, it´s so wonderful, I learned so much.

By Judi T H

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Jun 1, 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed this course, thank you. However, I should have completed the learning to learn course first and I shall go back and enroll. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and information.

By Seda B

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May 15, 2020

This course is excelllent!!! I love the Instructor especially Barb Oakley so kind and energetic. Thank you all take care of yourselves.

Medical Doctor of Physical medicine and rehabilitation , From Turkey

By Shanen L D S

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Apr 13, 2020

The course is very helpful to tackle the challenges arising in changing learning paths and careers. The materials and lecture are very immersive and understandable to anyone. I personally loved the course.

By Kevin V

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Nov 7, 2019

Excellent course, makes you re evaluate life choices and what you think are your limitations. Barbara Oakley is an exceptional educator, looking forward to enrolling in any future MOOC that she may create!

By Michael H

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Feb 3, 2019

I really enjoyed taking this course. The instructors are clearly getting better at what they do as time goes by, and they've done an excellent job of offering the material in a simple and relatable manner.

By Aino R E

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Aug 8, 2021

I found this course superb. I learned a lot about myself on how I operate. This has had a huge impact on me to the degree that I am looking through different glasses as I approach learning and employment.

By Monica L

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Apr 6, 2021

Very relevant course for this days during pandemic, easy to understand and fun too! It is interactive, short quizes are good to keep us on track of our understanding to the course. Thank you Barb & Terry!

By Dustin H

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May 17, 2020

This was the 2nd course that I have taken with these 2 professors and they are by far the most proficient and really understand the online learning community. I would like to see these 2 do more courses.

By Igor K

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Apr 4, 2020

Fantastic MOOC! The effort to put this together really shows, and the instructor is super engaging. The material is rather basic, but probably valuable to most. This is a really well put together package!

By Manisha K

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Oct 12, 2018

The course is really interesting, and I'd like to thank Professor Oakley for making it super interesting; delivering an outstanding teaching style. This is really an effective course!

Many thanks!

-Manisha

By aMIr h

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Dec 18, 2017

It has all the things that I want from a course, great marvelous professors. It's like a key to most of my fundamental puzzles in my mind. special thanks to great Barbara and marvelous Terrence Sejnowski.

By EISHA A

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Feb 14, 2021

I enjoyed my journey of 4 weeks course and very thankful to team MINDSHIFT. I will go through the same again as I have sometime left with me to explore more from the same content mentioned in the course.

By Jennie L

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May 7, 2020

The course is inspiring, useful, and fun to study. I enjoyed the discussion forum and memory tips. I will revise learning materials and apply the technique in my mind shift journey. Happy mind-shifting!

By tampau s

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Nov 17, 2017

It has helped me regain confidence in my abilities and surface those hidden somewhere in the complex potential I possess. It was fun and a bit positively addictive, with useful information. Thanks a lot!

By Patricia A

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Mar 25, 2022

This course gives you confidence and encourages you to remain active as it reveals the tricks our brains play on us.

The mentors use imagery in a powerful way to prove how we can learn more effectively.

By Hongyi W

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Jul 16, 2020

This course is the best MOOC I ever have. It is informative and helpful for my life and study. Dr. Barbara Oakley is a good teacher. She must have made a lot of effort to develop this course. Great job!

By Henkie H W

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Jun 26, 2020

This course gives you insight how important is the life long learning and practice it. We need also to have variety of skill, not only for one that we like. It will be beneficial for future requirement.

By Vijay T

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Jun 1, 2020

Everyone is raving about this course for the right reasons - it is well produced, engaging and motivating. As a MOOC developer myself, I'm humbled by the standards set by this course for the rest of us.

By George K

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Apr 19, 2020

A great MOOC that anyone should take to master the ability of learning. Both lecturers are great in describing the subject and also provide advice related to productivity and work-related environments.