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About the Course

This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We’ll learn about how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates (“chunks”) information. We’ll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects. Using these approaches, no matter what your skill levels in topics you would like to master, you can change your thinking and change your life. If you’re already an expert, this peep under the mental hood will give you ideas for turbocharging successful learning, including counter-intuitive test-taking tips and insights that will help you make the best use of your time on homework and problem sets. If you’re struggling, you’ll see a structured treasure trove of practical techniques that walk you through what you need to do to get on track. If you’ve ever wanted to become better at anything, this course will help serve as your guide. This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or prior to, its companion course, Mindshift. (Learning How to Learn is more learning-focused, and Mindshift is more career-focused.) A related course by the same instructors is Uncommon Sense Teaching. To join the fully translated Portuguese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprender To join the fully translated Spanish version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/aprendiendo-a-aprender To join the fully translated Chinese version of the course, visit: https://www.coursera.org/learn/ruhe-xuexi To join the fully translated French version of the course, visit : http://www.coursera.org/learn/apprendre-comment-apprendre...

Top reviews

NS

May 30, 2021

This course helped me a lot on realizing what I was missing and the real mistake that I've ever made. By fixing my cognition in learning, it gave me a better chance to study and retain more than ever.

JR

Mar 6, 2019

This course was eye-opening. I learned so many great techniques that I can immediately incorporate into my daily life. Thank you so much to the creators of this course for such invaluable information.

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By Aravind V

Oct 22, 2020

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!

By frank w

Sep 15, 2020

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.)

By Matthew H

Sep 29, 2019

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 MarinerJames

Sep 15, 2017

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.

By Huma K

Apr 13, 2022

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.

By YOUSEF A Z E

Dec 1, 2019

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.

By Eric L

Jul 26, 2019

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!!

By Peter

May 7, 2019

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!

By Héctor H H Z

Jan 19, 2019

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.

By Mohamed E

Oct 19, 2020

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.

By Oxana B

Jun 5, 2020

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.

By Ale R

May 19, 2020

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.

By S C

Nov 12, 2019

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.

By Brett T

Oct 29, 2015

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.

By Arielle I

Nov 7, 2020

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!

By K V M A K

Aug 1, 2020

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.

By Pritom P

Jun 11, 2020

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.

By Simon V

Jun 12, 2018

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 ;)

By Meenakshi B

May 25, 2017

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!

By Светлана Т

Dec 21, 2016

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.

By Usha S

Sep 21, 2023

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

By Ibrahim

Mar 22, 2023

I am very much grateful for this impeccable course. I have learned essential learning strategies that would help me to exceedingly go through tough subjects.

However, I am going to recommend this course to all those who are interested in deep learning and to my loved ones to enroll to this course.

I appreciate your wonderful job and generous effort to make us learn better and become avid life long learners. Especial thanks to DR. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Sejwnski.

By Lara U

Feb 21, 2022

This course was truly phenomenal! I don't normally take online courses, but the thorough work and research done by Barbara and Terry has really changed the course of my life at the current moment. It has improved my learning skills, but has also improved my confidence in my ability to be a better learner. I especially loved learning about Santiago Ramòn y Cajal, and found that story to be particularly inspiring. Excellent job to both of you, Barbara and Terry!

By Sairam G

Dec 25, 2020

Good day to all, this is my first course with course era and also forst online course. To start with how to read and excel is excellent as it is common and most required at all stages of life as we keep on learning one or the other. This course helps to give some key takeaways like pomodoro technique, importance of night sleep before exam and also benefits of exercise that helps brain function.

Thanks to the team especially Barb.

Wishing you all most and more...

By Andre K

Jul 21, 2020

A very helpful course. Barbara is a very delightful instructor. I did also enjoy learning a bit about the brain in relation to learning from Dr. Terrell. Definitely recommend to anyone wanting to learn more effectively and efficiently. There's a good number of learning techniques in this course. The Pomodoro technique is one technique that is so easy to do and yet so effective in stopping procrastination. That alone has made a huge difference. Thanks so much.