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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 Alex G

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Jun 28, 2019

I loved "Learning to Learn" and this is why I took Mindshift that I also love it. It´s worth it to everyone and I believe that is somethings like a refresh in a daily basis.

By Talha M

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Oct 12, 2024

This course offers great insights and actionable techniques, making it a worthwhile investment for anyone looking to enhance their learning capabilities and personal growth

By Rachid B

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Jan 14, 2022

Un cours indispensable à ceux qui veulent se former en continue et développer d'autres compétences et cela dans de bonnes conditions. Merci pour efforts et merci Coursera

By Siti K

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Aug 25, 2021

This course is the most important life changing moment in my life. I totally recommend this course to everyone to know that we could discover the best version of ourselves.

By rubina a

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Jun 17, 2020

It has given me positive energy, I needed so badly, to change my view of life . I am on a new journey now. I wish I had met my mentor Dr. Barbara Oakley earlier in my life.

By AmanKumar M

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Jun 8, 2020

Amazing Course!

It will boost you and energize your Morales to became young again in your thoughts and be a stoic person as well as flexible to change.

Keep learning always !

By LELE K K O

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Jul 10, 2019

Thank you very much. Babara is such a great lecturer. I really enjoyed her course learning how to learn. Am sure this mooc will be of great help to my proffessional career.

By Jeroen

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Feb 3, 2018

A good follow-up to the Learning How to Learn course, although has a different focus. I preferred the original course, even though this course definitely has its own merit.

By Priscila B

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Jan 27, 2018

Maravilhoso. Aprendi demais com as técnicas apresentadas.

As entrevistas nos vídeos extras são essenciais para enxergarmos a aplicação real das técnicas ensinadas nas aulas.

By Lucija Å 

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Dec 24, 2020

I loved Barb! This was my first MOOC ever and I think that no one will be as good as Barbara as a teacher - I love her enthusiasm, humour and skill of sharing knowledge :)

By angel v

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Jun 20, 2020

It was really interesting and interactional section with quizes and lots more. it made me to think and divert my thoughts in a positive way. thankyou for the oppurtunity .

By Wenya

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May 24, 2020

Love it! Super inspiring and the instructors are very positive. I personally think negatively but who's know! I found the precious gift, even during this pandemic. Thanks!

By Juffer B

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Jul 5, 2022

Barbara Oakley's efficiency in teaching complex subjects into simple memorable concepts makes learning easy and fun. Mindshift proves that learning need not be difficult.

By ma. e a p g

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Aug 31, 2020

It was a great experience! In this course it widens my understanding of viewing things about my chosen career. It has lots of special effects that captivates my interest.

By olabanke A

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Aug 30, 2020

It has been a tremendous experience and i am so glad i was able to connect and get involved with the course. My mindset has definitely been changed,renewed and refreshed.

By Gal T

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May 1, 2020

This course had really useful techniques to learn more efficiently! Initially I was worried it was going to be like any other mooc about learning but It definitely wasnt!

By Shweta Y

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Apr 19, 2020

An amazing course. Not only I learnt how to use my brain in a better way but also the behind the scenes issues of preparing a MOOC, which is important to me as a teacher.

By hassan g

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Apr 18, 2020

Somethings are boring but important. Somethings are boring but not important. Somethings are interesting but not important. This course is interesting AND very important.

By Marko P

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May 5, 2019

Good. Expanding on the amazing course - Learning How to Learn. Nice opportunity to refresh some of the important ideas from there and learn a few new things. Recommended.

By Valerie V K

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Jul 20, 2018

Yet another great course by the authors of Learning how to Learn. I suggest taking Learning how to Learn first, as parts of this course will help you really hammer it in.

By Sandra G

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Oct 18, 2017

This was my first MOOC ever. It was more interesting and helpful than I expected it to be. It helped get me out of my rut, and certainly encourages me to take more MOOCs.

By Marcelo C

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Sep 15, 2020

As always Mrs. Barbara and Mr. Senojwki simplified very deep topics to make them very easy to understand

I like this course so much

I hope you keep doing courses like this

By Himanshu P

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May 28, 2020

wonderful is this course along with the best mentor like barb

with my deepest gratitude and appreciation, I thank barb and all others who supported in making this course.

By Subrata K N

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May 23, 2020

Another exceptionally useful course from Professors Barbara Oakley and Terence Sejnowski. It opened my eyes to many possibilities for improving my learning capabilities.

By Phaniwan P

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Apr 29, 2020

This is my very first MOOC for me. I'm glad that I have chosen this MOOC as my first class since this class is very inspiring me to better and wanted to take more MOOCs.