I found this course to be really helpful as someone who has been out of the formal education sector for awhile and getting back into learning. I can tell it will help me going forward to use the concepts presented in this course. I loved the combination of science and fun presentation this course had. I would 100% recommend it to others who need a refresher or a new perspective on effectively learning.

I really enjoyed this course. Some of what was covered was not new to me, but having it reinforced was helpful. It was also good to be able to tie some of that existing knowledge together with new concepts and techniques. I am looking forward to applying what I learned in this course to other courses I am taking. Just because I am nearing retirement doesn't mean I am ready to stop learning and growing!

Thank you so much for a very interesting and educational course. I love it. Now I know how I went wrong in learning in the past and now I know techniques that would improve my learning in any subject. Also, I learned that we are all capable of learning anything. That's really awesome. That gives me the confidence to learn anything and achieve anything in life. Thank you so much professors and Coursera.

The course was amazing! It's very useful for anyone. Awesome! I wish I should have learned about this long time before. Both professors are knowledgeable and energetic. The way of teaching is motivated, uplifting, and enjoyable, encouraging me to continue each session to the end without sleeping. The staff who are in charge of answering questions in discussion forum are not helpful and not informative.

This is a very interesting and important course for anyone who is trying to learn absolutely ANYTHING. As Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski guide you through the different techniques and important inputs on brain functioning, they will turn the spotlights of your thought processes into better understanding and interpreting the "mechanics" of your most important tool for learning, your mind.

Many helpful tips, suggestions, and ways of looking at how we learn so that we may learn more fully and more quickly. I would happily recommend this course (and Dr. Oakley's book) to anyone looking to improve their time management, creativity, organization, and learning skills. Might not always be the most entertaining video you'll see all day but it is fascinating and easily understood, nonetheless. T

This course helps me to recognize how the brain works when we are learning. By knowing this, we can know the benefits of learning and turns out we can learn further than we think. This course also help me to know some tips and tricks to tackle procrastination, one of the obstacle in learning new things. Briefly, this course is very helpful, and right now I can create the learning strategy for my self.

Immensely helpful and reinforcing. It made me aware of the essentials that I must sustain to make myself efficient in continuously learning. BIG Thanks to the Deep Teaching Solutions Team especially to Prof. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski. You are making learning fun and easier along the way. You deserve 5 STARS indeed! Salute to your devotion to helping everyone willing to learn and learn.

White I've encountered bit's and pieces of the material and ideas discussed in this course, this just speaks to the fact that they are actually work, they were just that bits and pieces. This course organizes it into one place, all the while actively demonstrating and incorporating the material it teaches. If you're like me and need structure to really make sense of things, this is the course for you.

I completely recommend this course. It gave me a clear view of the work organization and learning strategies. You do not need to think about maths or science for taking advantage of it. The different strategies to cope with procrastination and frustration are highly useful for your life. Both professors explain in “friendly” way and complex neuroscientific concepts become metaphors and funny concepts.

Hello, I'm from Russia. I almost finished this wonderful course. My English is bad. But thanks to the subtitles, I was able to understand everything. This course has opened up a lot of new information for me. He helped to find different methods and techniques that I needed, which allowed me to improve my ability to learn, develop and improve. I apologize for such an English is all Google translator =)

This is an incredible course. I think that every person should take it and I wonder actually why teachers in schools and universities don't pay attention much about HOW to learn. I'm so happy I met this course and I'm sure I will be revisiting it again from time to time. Barbara's example about her own engineering experience is especially inspiring for me, she gave me the belief in myself. Thanks!!!!!

This is a very useful Course that Illustrates the Basic steps in the learning process

and give you a useful methods and tools to use through your learning to maximize your memorizing and understanding to retain the information in easily way

and also tell you how to prepare for tests and even how to answer the question in the test

This course will help any student or any one who try to learn new things

This course is revealing very important facts about learning and presents a few very good tricks how to more easily and effectively learn new things. During this course, I realised that there is basically no such thing as excuses like you don't have talent for something or you're not smart enough. All you need to do is to get involved, stay open-minded for new ideas, and enjoy the process of learning.

This course was really practical and useful. It improved my understanding of the learning process and taught me many fresh methods for quick learning. The additional materials are really beneficial and provide people with avenues to pursue their interests. The Pomodoro technique, spaced repetition, and many others were appealing to me. Therefore, I heartily endorse this course. I appreciate Coursera.

It was really very interesting for me as I could learn how to learn. May be, I was following some of these techniques of learning but I was doing that without knowing. During my learning, many a times I used to avoid learning difficult things. Now I have learnt how to make a chunk, how to test and learn effectively. Now, this knowledge will help me to learn anything effectively even difficult things.

Спасибо большое за возможность пройти этот курс. Спасибо огромное авторам! Я не предполагал, что этот курс окажет на меня такое сильное влияние. Всю жизнь думал, что у меня проблемы с восприятием и усваиванием информации. Как оказалось, проблемы были в подходе к изучению. Спасибо большое!!! :)

Thanks a lot for this course. It's literaly changed my life!

Thanks to authors!!!

From Vladivostok with love :)

I wish this class was available when I was in high school many years ago. I had no confidence in my intellectual abilities. Teaching in the 60s and 70s was so 'cookie cutter' - the expectation was that everyone learned the same way. As an adult learner I realized that it took me a bit longer to take in the information and practiced many of the techniques taught through this class. I like the way both

If someone studied a lot during school and university, they might figure out a few of the techniques presented in this course. Instead of years, with a few days of extra study, you'll learn all the essential and useful tips and tricks to make your study session a lot more efficient and enjoyable.

In my opinion, this should be taught at least in every university and high school for first-year students.

What a shame this course is already over. I absolutely enjoyed it and will miss Barb and Terry with their kind and comforting voice to talk to me during the lonely Covid-19 lockdown period. I strongly recommend this course for any MOOC newbie like me. It is so interesting and lots of fun. I feel well prepared having useful tools on hand to conquer the Coursera world now and absolve many more courses.

I am very grateful and thankful to everyone involved in making this course available and in such a high quality and in such a pleasant way to learn. I absolutely loved this course and I learned a lot. It definitely opens a new chapter in my learning journey. Im gonna miss Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence S., they were very professional and amazing teachers!!!

Thank you!

My very Best,

Juliana Bacellar

This was the best online course I have taken (not one of the best, but the best). It teaches you skills that you can transfer on to future learning in any area, and offers practical tips on how to tackle procrastination, improve your own learning abilities and more. I am so grateful to coursera and the creators of the course. This was such a fun learning experience and makes me excited to learn more!

I urge all those who need to learn because they have to, or because they love it, to enrol in this course this very instant. There's nothing like knowing how your brain works when you're learning. This is actually the first MOOC everybody should study before enrolling in any other course. Thanks to Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski for offering it, and Coursera to launch it. And happy learning to you all!

This is a fantastic course. Probably the best course I've taken on Coursera and other platforms for that matter. What makes it great is that it's really well paced, there's not an abundance of overwhelming information and the fact that it uses some of the techniques recommended in the course, like spaced repetition where some concepts are repeated several times during the course. Truly amazing stuff.

Great insights backed by science on how to reduce procrastination, optimize memory, and ultimately become a better learner. I really appreciated how the course broke the material down into small, manageable chunks and that there were short quizzes to check my understanding. Even if you are already a student who excels in their classes, I believe there are some great insights in this course for you!