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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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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 Swaroop B

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Apr 22, 2020

Very detailed explanation by Barbara. Never gets boring. I recommend this course to everyone who's interested in learning new insights and gain some knowledge.

By Liz C

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Mar 11, 2018

This course was very helpful in helping me find ways of shifting my thinking about traits I have that would normally be viewed as bad or unhelpful. Recommend.

By Sharon S

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Aug 9, 2020

Thought provoking and inspiring information on learning and changing perspectives. The information was well presented by engaging and interesting instructors.

By W H

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Jul 30, 2020

Excellent presentation and content. It will inspire you to learn more and change your life for the better, no matter how old you are or where you are in life.

By Poulomi B

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May 17, 2020

It deserves the rating it has. I took this MOOC during the COVID 19 pandemic and it helped me stay positive and opened my mind to myriad new ways of thinking.

By Shubham P B

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Apr 29, 2020

I really liked the flexibility of this course. It worked well with busy scheduling, and the expectations were clear and upfront. Memory tips were fantastic.

By chenshuyuan

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Feb 21, 2019

Give me the reasons to find my hidden potential,lead me in a positive learning style .And I know that I can use promodo to help me do things more effeciently.

By Yennifer A G L

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Oct 9, 2024

Me encantó la forma en la que se impartió la información. Todo me pareció muy importante y será de gran ayuda en mi desarrollo profesional así como personal.

By Dianne d J

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Oct 22, 2020

Amazing content. And equally amazing mentors! Very relevant nowadays and the learning you'll get from this course will stay with you and will help guide you.

By Aibibi

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Jun 8, 2020

I learned so much! It was truly mindshifting, it changed my life and now I love study even better! Being a slow learner is not a the thing that can stop you!

By Giuseppe C

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Feb 13, 2019

This has been my first course, and I really satisfied about it.

I am planning to take other courses of this kind.

Many thanks and fond regards,

Giuseppe Catani

By Jimena R

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Oct 26, 2020

I loved this course. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to improve their learning skills and also their lives in general. Barbara is a great teacher.

By JESSICA M M

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Sep 25, 2020

Mindshift is a wonderful course. It helps me to know and understand me better. It helps me to discover my hidden potential in a funny and inspirational way.

By Leah d L

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Sep 8, 2020

This was a great course and compliments the Learning How to Learn course. I enjoyed the videos and found the material useful. The instructors are very good.

By ANDREA E C A

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Jul 28, 2020

Amazing course! It is definitely worthwhile, you won't regret it. You will learn a lot of strategies and tools to put them into practice in your daily life!

By ANTONIO G B

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Jun 16, 2020

Thank you for this great opportunity to learn. I learned a lot from this course. Very useful and full of wisdom. Highly recommended to all. Happy learning !

By Dedih D

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May 20, 2020

I took this course in four days. Very interesting and open my horizons, especially in understanding the best ways to learn and optimize the hidden potential

By Al-Batool B

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Apr 18, 2020

Simple, practical and highly engaging. Gives you easy techniques and concepts that can be very useful for your lifelong learning experience and development.

By Doc B

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Feb 19, 2019

I enjoyed the course and truly learned more than I thought I would. I gained real world skills that I have already started to apply in my learning process.

By Angelica H

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Jan 9, 2018

en lo que llevo del curso me parece muy interesante, hace que me replantee muchas de las situaciones y que quiera ser más activa en cualquier tema que desee

By Deleted A

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Jun 4, 2017

It was really useful. A lot of things (if not all) were brand new, I guess now my life is changed forever. I will do it again to better remember everything!

By Jennifer H

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Sep 14, 2021

This course was very good in encouraging you to think outside the box. I enjoyed the balance between mind tips and the science behind how your brain works.

By Delron L D

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Mar 6, 2021

This was awesome to taking this course, I learn stuff that I have never know about, and how I can apply it to my life and be more effective in society, etc

By Dr. G H R

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Dec 30, 2020

A very nicely presented online learning course to breakthrough one's obstacles to learning and discover our hidden potential and also an eye opener course.

By Naveen A

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Jul 25, 2020

To start any big course it is better to learn the skills of learning so that you stay motivated till the end of the course not just to the initial phase of