I highly recommend! This is very interesting and educational. If you are like me, psychology or neuroscience is not my strength. I had struggled in understand Week One's lessons but found out that the more you listen and practice the information, the easier it gets! I love that I am practicing some of the techniques as early as now. This is course is very helpful and useful not only for students but for everybody. Thanks for the opportunity to learn better!

This course is a must for everyone. It would have changed my life if I had taken it as a teenager, but it still was highly valuably at the age of 31, even being in possession of two BAs, two master degrees and a rich professional life.If you are interested in bettering yourself and learning in general, this course is for you. And here's the beauty of it: if you are not, it will probably make you interested in all those things, so this course is for you too.

Great course in teaching your mind to be flexible and learning new things. Barb breaks down concepts in a fun and realistic way. The optional videos are nicely curated and I highly recommend those. The course helps you stretch your brain. I've employed several of the techniques in my own study path, having gone through a change of careers and back to school at 37. I'm in the tech education industry as a teacher myself and recruiter and highly recommend it!

I was in bad need for this course ten years ago when i was in high school it was to make a great difference in the college i studied in...but even right now it is the most important course to start with before go on in any other courses ,,its the real start point for me and changed completely my thoughts and opened my mind to my real abilities to study what ever i want ..........thanks or professors barbra an trenoski andother team member...........

This was a great course and i hope more people start to use these techniques. Putting this information in the hands of kids when they are young would be very useful. Also elaborating on metaphors and training to use the memory palace would be very beneficial. Creating a video that asks people to walk through there home placing items in a check list all over then quizzing them on how many items they remembered. similar to the book moon-walking with Einstein.

This course was much more useful than I thought it would be. While there were some parts of the videos that gave some of the usual information about learning, there were a far larger that provided useful, actionable information. I particularly liked how short the videos were. That made it easier to consume individual videos and concentrate on them in a relatively short amount of time ... something I could get done during a break from work or something else.

This course is amazing, Its for anyone who wants to learn anything. For students, academics, professionals or enthusiats trying to learn a new hability. I loved this course. It gave me a new perspective of the way the brain works and how we can learn things more effectivily. English is not my firts language, but the course is good to understand, and the professors are very didatics and captivating. Thank you a lot, Professor Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence

Ill be walking away with Amazing Tools and Techniques from this course, which will make my studies and Journey through life seamless. Then understanding of how the brain functions, Why these techniques work, and the Positive outlook that anyone is able to increase their intelligence through proper application of what is learned in this course.

Thank you to both Dr. Oakley, Dr. Sejnowski and anyone who had help with this course. Its worth every bit of study.

A well presented, interesting, useful and accessible course that didn’t take too many hours in total but offered a wealth of new learning that made it well worth investing the time.

A good mix of video lectures and quiz material, with end of unit summaries that revisited key ideas and introductions that linked previous material with new concepts. Excellent sharing of resource material, too - I have enough additional reading options to last out the year now!

This course helps me a lot in tackling procrastination and make me realized what I've done wrong in my study. The course gives a proper amount of scientific reasons about the brain to support human behaviours and how to deal with them. Every tips and technique taught in the course were also performed and used by course instructors along the way of teaching, and I found those techniques help me a lot in understanding and memorizing the content :)

Thank you!

Absolutely wonderful and must-have course for everyone. It provides you the opportunity to learn how to learn directly from leaders in the field. The explanation provide about how memory works are very easy to understand. The techniques explained are simple, easy and come with explanations about why and how they work. Therefore everything makes a lot of sense, is very clear and to the point. All the lessons can be put to use right after finishing a lesson.

This is a very useful course for everyone who wants to learn more effectively, understand complex concepts with less effort, retain information more deeply, and master subjects that even look frightening at first.

No matter if you are studying languages, physics, or programming, you will definitely find some simple and smart techniques for your everyday use.

I have just completed the course and I will definitely recommend it to my friends and colleagues.

A very insightful and uplifting course. Thanks to it, I collected several useful to tips to increase the efficiency of my learning sessions (e.g. the Pomodoro technique, giving the priority to self-testing instead of re-reading the study material). And I learned several interesting information about great pioneers in neuroscience such as Ramon y Cajal. I am grateful to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for their commitment in this free course.

Thank you to everyone involved in making this course happening. The information offered is vital to understanding how we learn. In my opinion I have learned and finally understood important concepts of learning that I should have learned earlier in my life. I am very thankful for being one of the participants in this class and would suggest it to anyone! Sad that this is not taught in school before we venture out into the world to become a grown up person.

I have issues regarding procrastination which prevented me from completing any task on time and many times I wasted so much time on planning rather than taking action. This course is really helpful for me as it explains how our brain and memory work, how to overcome procrastination, and how to solve any problems. I'm grateful to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for their valuable lessons and for making this life-changing course. Thanks a lot.

for many years, I've tried different methods to change the way that I was working and studying, U enrolled this course, I wasn't sure that I'm going to learn something new, after the first week I said woow, I think this is going to work, and it did, it does, it's going to work more, I've learned a lot, this is changed my hole way of learning, getting understanding ourselves, the way that we work, it's the most important step

thank you so much, appreciated

I've been learning the whole my life. The whole my life I've been learning in a wrong way, because for some reason or another they don't consider it's worth teaching pupils and students how to learn, which is the first thing I suppose is to be learnt at any education institution. Thank you very much for this course. You have encouraged me to deliver this information to my students. I want to continue working on this topic more deeply at my Master Program.

Barb is an awesome instructor. this course is fun, engaging, and very thorough. i do wish they would get into more technical terms for all of the content. they go into details about dopamine and serotonin but then just simply refer to amyloid beta as "metabolic poison". the silly metaphors and illustrations really strengthen the concepts being taught. everything concidered, 5/5 this course is great for anybody trying to power up their learning abilities.

One of the best courses I have come across on Coursera. What makes this course so great is that Prof Barbara Oakley talks about very simple concepts which most of us "know", yet shows how it is so obvious that we don't really practice them in our lives. What better motivation to finally practice some of these known tips and tools of Neuroscience than to understand WHY - why we do (or don't do) what we do (or don't do), and what can we do to Learn better.

This course broke down 'learning how to learn' into manageable chunks which enabled me to absorb the information easily. It also made me feel more relaxed about taking on challenging subjects and has helped me to reduce barriers to getting started. Barbara Oakley's simple and accessible teaching style made the course enjoyable. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to change bad habits and acquire the right learning skills to better themselves.

This is a great course to help anyone interested in learning. I now understand how to better spend my time studying and that you can learn even those things you don't think your good at. Wonderful help with procrastination and test taking. Not too hard to understand the material and it only takes a bit of work to complete the work and do well on the tests. Anyone can take this course and benefit from it. Highly recommend taking it, well worth your time.

Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski present the material in a fun, engaging way for a general audience. I highly recommend anyone take this course for the multitude of techniques explained to aid learning and address issues like procrastination and your mindset if you lack self-confidence to learn. While the material is focused more toward study and school, there is plenty of benefit for professionals and others looking to continue to learn outside of school.

J'ai adoré. Cela m'a permis d'avoir une très belle base et ça me donne envie d'explorer plus en profondeur le sujet. En outre, je trouve que Barbara Oakley a une très belle bienveillance qu'elle réussit à transmettre. Merci !

I loved it. This course allowed me to get a real good grip on learning and gives me a strong desire to explore more deeply the subject. Also I find that Barbara Oakley has beautiful kindness that shows beautifully onscreen.

Thank you!

The course has equipped me with crucial knowledge that I can apply to my daily life, especially in terms of learning. It has helped me to better understand myself and how the brain works. After gaining all the information in the course, I have become more aware of my actions and more considerate in my approach to learning. Additionally, the lecturers in the course clearly and concisely explain everything in detail, making it easier for me to understand.

Wonderful course and the concept. Beautiful way of explanation by Dr. Baraba Oakley on the various ideologies of mind and the approach of identifying the blocks and how to eliminate them along with the live interviews of great achievers is really helpful. The scientific explanation of Neuro Science and its effect on the learning and Brain functionality by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski is excellent. A very good course giving a broad concept of New Ways to Learn