I am learning at age 56, that many of my learning techniques were actually quite ineffective. Also, that I can do better going forward(forming new neurons in my hippocampus is a lifelong process!). That is very empowering. The course is very enjoyable, explaining profound concepts in an easy to understand manner with a dash of humor. I originally took the course to inspire by 18 year old who is off to college, but eventually i completed it because I learnt so much.

Absolutely excellent course to start my educational journey with! I intend on using the methods presented in this course, not only for myself, but for my son as well while he is doing distance learning. I love the way Prof Oakley presented the material, and am looking forward to the other class she presents later in the year. Every Coursera learner should take this class, and I have also recommended it to a few of my friends who are working on their higher degrees!

You guys are rock stars! I appreciate you guys make this lesson so readable. English is my second language. I think I could handle like 70% of all content.

I like reading articles or books but when I reading more and more. It happens a lot that I forgot what I just read. When I learning from this lesson, finally understood my old habit, not like recall content. So when I figure out is very easy to use this skill in the future.

Thanks a lot from a student in Taiwan.

From the perspective of someone who is already in the Engineering workforce, this was very valuable to me. Of course you have to want to get more out of the time you spend studying in the first place.

I was already doing many of the thinks discussed in this course, but there were many new and interesting learning techniques. I genuinely recommend this to anyone who is willing to step back, and get out of their own way in the learning process. Happy learning folks.

Throughout my formal years of education, learning was limited to answering questions, mastering a textbook. Basically gaming and understanding the prevalent system without focussing on what value do i really gain by learning and also how to address the fears and deficiencies I have in my learning methods. This MOOC enabled me in demystifying a lot of my wrong beliefs and helped improve my attitude towards learning. Thank you, Barbara Oakley and Terrance Sejnowski!

This course is by far the best I've had the privilege of learning from on the subject of learning. I wish I had access to this material decades ago. Short, to the point, brilliantly edited, full of useful analogies and metaphors; this course can help remove roadblocks and unwanted obstacles from your inner learning ability. Please, do yourself the favor of enrolling in and completing this course. You won't regret it (at least I didn't and I hope you won't either.)

I absolutely loved this course and all of the great information. The course content is very well structured and the creators Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski do an excellent job at delivering the course material. They just make it so much fun to get back to learning how to learn. I will be using this a reference for years to come, after all, I need to come back and deepen my learning with practice. Thank you for making this course it is truly helpful.

By far the best course I ever did on how to learn. It's amazing after spending so much of our lives learning new things, we never invest time in how to learn efficiently and effectively. The course has been a real eye opener, and is applicable to everyone at any age. It also educates you in a very lucid manner with various metaphors and animations of how your brain works and how to train it to learn, and retain new information better. Highly recommend this course.

An Excellent Course. I have learned so much from it I cannot THANK both Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr.Terence Sejnowski enough for this lovely course. It has been an eye opener and I, as a teacher, have already inculcated it into my teaching and have spoken snd discussed the different aspects of learning with both my Middle and High School ..

Problems like procrastination has been my bane in moving forward and I hope to overcome it

A Great big THANK YOU to BOTH of you.

This course is very important for every one need to learn more easy and effective as I am learned for more than 40 years ago but this course add more values to me to learning how to learn more easy; more effective; new techniques.

I learned how the brains works this help us to dealing with it.

This course add to me valuables life skills; So I thanks Dr. barabara Oakley and Dr. Rerrence Sejnowski very mush for good work.

Also I would thank Coursera for great helpful.

This course changed my life. Thank you for resurrecting my dreams so that fewer of them have to be wasted away because of procrastination, self-hatred, insecurity, forgetfulness, stubbornness, and fear.

As a soon-to-be college student, I could not have asked for a better pre-college summer. I am no longer nervous about school and I am ready to learn about anything. I'm also ready to take over the world!

You guys are amazing! Thank you from the bottom of my heart!!

Peter completed this course.

This is by far the best course I have ever taken. It solidifies and explains everything I've known about studying and provides a deeper (yet simple ) understanding of why we behave in certain ways and how we can improve our learning capability.

Barbara Oakley was especially great, she has a good and steady flow and method of explaining that makes it easy for one to understand.

This should be mandatory in every school and university!

Excellent!

This course should be not only like and optional instead more like a mandatory course at the beginning of the college or even earlier, things could be a lot more easier to do and one can be and feel better.

Right now I have finished my career in Computational engineering and I'm actually working in a big size company, I can tell you that with applying a few things that I missed and learned in this course I feel I did in a week, the work of whole month.

this is an amazing course that gives you such good techniques to help you go through a hard process called learning it helps you to see learning as an operation that you can take procedures to help you make it easier and I want to thank the professors and the staff behind the camera for their effort I recommend this course for anyone trying to learn anything and as it is mentioned in the course it is ok to take a step back and learn how to learn thank you again.

That was an awesome course to attend and I highly recommend it to those, who struggle with studies and need learning tips and trick. It is always difficult to make a first step, but when it is done there is a chance to see a light at the end of the tunnel. This course got me illuminated and broadened horizons in the process of learning. I will study hard and make my dream come true by passing the exam and getting other learning outcomes in different disciplines.

It was one of the best courses I've ever attended in my life. The explanations were so clear, even if English isn't my mother language. The professors made a wonderful work and were so kind, so so clear and friendly that I feel their passion for the topics and they were amazing in teaching me all of the things covered here, with lots of practical examples, advises to become a better student and not only, but also to train my brain and my memory to became better.

Great course with a lot of great tips and instruments on how to learn more effectively. Concept of two learning modes of our brain, chunks, repetition, einstallung, testing yourself, true understanding of the content, metaphors and analogies, on working and long-term memory, memory palace, zombie mode and procrastination, pomodoro technique, hard-start and easy jump, perseverance, deliberate practice, repetition, recalling and importance of discipline are great.

An excellent course to debunk the belief that if like me your not an institutional learner. All that's needed is the understanding of "How to Learn" and the correct process. These are ideas that have brought together things i thought i did right and things that i clearly did wrong like cramming for an exam.

This course has changed the way i look at learning and given me the belief and confidence to not only learn new topics but also enjoy the process of learning.

Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski discussed a lot of interesting things about the underlying concept of learning. They don't just tell you how to do the techniques, they make you understand why you should do the techniques, and in turn you'd find that they are very effective and helpful. The tests were like practical applications of the discussed concept. This course is very useful, i hope i have come across this sooner. Thank you Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski!

Feeling glad and happy. Did learn some new stuffs but did learn loads of new terms and theoretical insights within brain processing's. Thank you so much. Simply loved the session. It was great getting back to theoretical learning after a long break. Learning online was something i've always wanted for pretty long. Glad that finally got to it. Many thanx to everyone who made it possible including MDEC and my cousin who introduced it. Thank you. Have a great day.

One of the best trainings i have attended. Very well structured. Concise and excellent presentations. Lots of testing. Very interesting topics relating to the functioning of the brain that can affect our learning capacity. Number of useful tools to leverage on the brain´s nature and unleash our learning potential. Opportunity to learn by reviewing the work of other student. All this for 2 hours a week over 4 weeks. Plus a number of optional readings and videos.

I really loved this course. While I didn't go for the certification as I was searching for better ways to study, this course was quite wonderful. Barbara does a wonderful job at explaining things and I learned so much about my brain and study methods. This really helped me tackle things and improve my learning, especially as I was searching for such knowledge already for years. So if you're interested or challenged in learning, go for it, you won't lose time ;)

The course is very relevant to anyone who thinks learning is an ongoing process. It is very important to people who don't think so. The course brings to the forefront the basis of key issues in learning and also provides concrete techniques to help one learn better. It provides opportunity for the learner to reflect on his/her own problems and helps improve. Hearty thanks to Barbara Oakley and Terrace Sejnowski for helping me take my learning to the next level!

Отличный курс! Очень понравился. Хотя и возникли сложности. Английским языком почти не владею, смотрела с субтитрами. В целом все было понятно. Но очень сложно было сдавать тесты, так как на них перевода нет. Приходилось переводить самостоятельно, и часть смысла терялась при переводе. Поэтому страдало качество работы с тестами. Если есть возможность приложите файл с переводом тестов, так же как с субтитрами.

Большое спасибо создателям курса и успехов в работе.

It was a very interesting and instructive course. I learnt a lot about the brain, the way to study, how to avoid procrastination, how to prepare for a test, team work and methods of learning. In fact I suddenly find myself back to my old joyous way of attending to all my work in a day besides learning! I am now eager to restart my learning of Sanskrit and finish writing my novels. Both Dr.Terry and Barbara have prepared the course very well. I thank them a lot