Throughout this course, I kept thinking of just how helpful this information would have been in middle school; I also became eager to share my experience with this course and encourage others (especially younger learners) to take it. This course is extremely easy to take, but also incredibly useful in presenting new study techniques, and reinforcing old ones. Although I highly recommend this course for younger learners, the material covered in this course would be beneficial to anyone at any stage.

I have two degrees and have taken several online courses and been a full-time life-long learner. This is one of the best courses I've ever taken. It seems somewhat new in format, more focused on actual learning than any notion of grades, and by the end, thanks to the wonders of the Internet interface, there was a new, or rather several new features in my inner life that I had more or less painlessly learned. I've recommended this to many people, my children have done it; your course is a true gift.

Very helpful methodology for learning based on proven techniques backed by scientific research. Material is presented in a creative and very digestible way. Many of the learning techniques taught are woven into the course, which is ideal! I plan to share this class and the learning techniques I've gleaned with everyone because I think everyone could benefit, regardless of background. This was truly a delight. From the bottom of my heart, thank you for teaching me how to be a better learner!!!

Really enjoyable course full of helpful insights, methods, and tips to improve learning and studying. It’s all distilled from the latest neurological research as is demonstrated by the extensive further reading and reference lists. I wish I’d had the benefit of this course when I was a younger student at university. I especially liked the material about how to overcome procrastination and illusions of competence. I’ve now adopted lots of the methods and practises into my daily and weekly routines.

Thank you for teaching this critical course. It helps me better understand scientifically from neuro perspective how our brain functions and reacts. I was able to apply the ideas in this course such as habit development and procrastination to my own life and better adjust and notice my own behaviors. By sharing this course and the concept in the course with my friend allow me to better understand the ideas taught. Thanks again for sharing such a crucial mooc course that everyone can benefit from.

Большое спасибо! Это действительно восхитительный курс. Очень жаль, что я не знала о нем во времена обучения в школе и университете. Но я абсолютно уверена, что полученные знания я буду использовать (и уже использую) в самообучении и обучении в других сферах. Обязательно поделюсь этим курсом с младшими ребятами, чтобы они начали использовать эту информацию в своем обучении уже сейчас (в школе, университете). Желаю успехов в вашем деле! А новым ученикам стремления вперед самым эффективным способом)

I benefit from this course as it helped me with other online and offline courses. After I know how my brain works, I learn more efficiently than before without sacrificing the time for rest and sleep. I recommended this course to many of my friends and I recommend it here to people who don't want to give up learning - if you are considering about other courses on coursera and don't know if you can complete them, try this course first. It can be a good one to start and it will help you with others.

When I started the course I had no expectations and I expected it to be just another super technical course or with ideas that seem far from most people's reality but I was surprised in the first videos. Professor Barbara Oakley and Professor Dr. Terrence Sejnowski explain in an intelligible way for the average audience with simple and applicable techniques, classes so captivating that it made me want the course to be even bigger. Sincerely, thank you for sharing this wonderful knowledge with us.

I have to say "Wow" for the experience i got by joining this course. First i didn't expect a lot when I enrolled then I was amazed by the so many useful tips I got from it. No wonder this course being recommended by students. Both Professor Barbara Oakley and Professor Terrence Sejnowski deliver very useful information for anyone who want to upgrade their learning skill. The way they present this MOOC is also incredible. It is simple, not boring, funny, and of course easy to understand. Good job.

As mentioned, this course is all about learning what we already learnt. Probably, our parents or seniors or elder had already told us to do. Somethings adopted and somethings not. However this course teaches the principles behind what they taught to us. After knowing the principles and science behind the teaching, the teaching becomes all very authentic and somewhere integrates all the memory chunks. While the study material was scientific however good care was taken to present it in simple way.

This is one of those rare courses which helped me in giving the tools to learn effectively. Honestly speaking I didn't know about Pomodoro, chunking, interleaving, deliberate practice and neuro-chemicals' role until I completed the course. Thank you Barbara and Terry for making me fall in love with learning again in my mid-life. Great Job. Your crisp presentation and pace of delivery should be emulated by anyone who intends to teach online. Love you and hope to have more courses from you shortly.

As someone who has struggled to overcome imposter syndrome due to dyslexia, this course has some excellent techniques that have been able to help me gain confidence in my ability to learn complex things and how to deepen my recall. Learners of all ages would benefit from the topics in this course. Barbara Oakley has an evident passion that comes through for wanting to help learners not only change their mindset but also to help create successful learning outcomes. A+ course. Highly recommend!

An excellent course that everyone can benefit from. We are all always learning new things in life. The technics covered in 'Learning How to Learn' course on Coursera by Drs. Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski can help anyone improve the way they grasp new information and commit it to memory. I personally enjoyed taking this course and it has had an immense impact on my own learning already and I can't even begin to imagine how much it will accelerate my learning in the future in any other space.

I found this course extremely informative. I really enjoyed Barbara's slides as they were particularly easy to understand and follow. I found that the other Professor relied too heavily on the notes he was reading, avoided eye-contact in parts, and didn't have the flow of Barbara. Obviously an extremely clever gentleman however I thought it was worth mentioning. Really pleased to be able to take such a quality course for free so a big thanks goes to Coursera but more so, McMaster University.

Great teachers, great course, thank you! I've learnt a lot and really enjoyed watching all the videos and learning about how our brain works and getting very useful tools to help me learn more efficiently. I highly recommend this very interactive course to anyone willing to learn how to manage their time better, be more productive in the way they study, be more confident in their capacity to learn anything new.

A very big thank you to all the people who contributed to the creation of this course.

This course was very helpful to me, it showed me a lot of new approaches, and also showed me to take my Engineering experience and apply it to studying they way I would approach an engineering project. It also helped me to calm down about that I'm not the only one with some of the problems mentioned in the course. What I also found interesting where the examples of the people true history and who overcame their problems this was very inspiring. thank you very much ! Hans Van der Veken (Belgium)

The course was well paced and structured, allowing anyone, even someone quite busy with other distractions, to manage. There is a wealth of material to focus on, but as the course points out, it is the time you "meditate, sleep and exercise" around what you are learning that allows your defused thinking to store the gems of information away to be used for a lifetime. Great resources too, and both Terry and Barbara were quietly advocates for never being careless about learning. Thank you both.

Good course. I definitely feel as if I've improved my learning skills. I wish I'd had a course like this when I was at school - I'm sure I would have done much better (I wasn't too bad, but I wasn't the best either). I think it's also useful for older people like me (40+) because I can still apply this to lots of areas of life and, as the course explains, we can carry on learning throughout life so there's every reason to do this. I might use the information I've learned here to change careers.

I wish I knew this way back when I was studying at the university. Fantastic course, explaining very important things about how human brain works in a series of small, comprehensive videos. I would recommend it to anyone who considers learning something new. I have also really appreciated the supportive mood of this course and general approach that learning is for everyone and even if you are terrible at, e.g. math, it is a matter of time and your own effort to succeed in learning this subject.

This course has shown me behind the curtains of how our brain works, especially when it comes to learning new things.

It has imparted with research proven techniques on how I can learn more effectively and has made learning new things a fun challenge to me.

I especially loved to pomodoro technique on how to beat procrastination.

Dr. Barbara Oakley really outdid herself with her fun anecdotes and the way she explained things with such simplicity.

This MOOC could not have been constructed more aptly.

I´m so please to follow this course. I´ve 57 years old, I realise iit is getting a little more dificult to learn , I've started to learn french since 2014, I have 3 years with a high motivation and perseveration, but I want to continue studing FOREVER, I need to LEARN how to learn , and that why this course is an invaluable treasury for me . THANKS so much for the contents quality, the way to present them y the high proffesional level of every person on it.

Adalis Facenda from Barcelona - Spain

Very good overview on learning "how to learn". Having already read "A mind for numbers" (AMFN) from the same author (Oakley), I can say that -to me at least- this was a good recap of the material already "chucked" from the book. Most of the extras in each course's week (different from the book) are interesting and well-thought. I recommend to read AMFN to those who have liked this course, because it goes more in-depth on some topics, but this course is definitely worth it even without the book.

The most useful course I've ever taken! It explained how brain works when you try to learn something in a very practical and easy way. The course gives useful tools and techniques how to overcome procrastination and overlearning. It destroys the belief that some people are good for science only and some are only for humanitarian areas. You really can do everything with the right approach and deliberate practice. Thank you Barbara and the course team for sharing your personal inspiring stories.

Professors are true professionals and great motivators. The tools they give on this course are valuable and will give quality to your further studying. I think everyone should have those tools as early as possible. The only thing related to this course that I need to stress out is the fact that it would make my life easier if I would have finished it before my studies. Everyone who appreciates curiosity and learning, especially if one has some struggles with it, has my recommendation to enrol.

This course has a very friendly outline. The material and topics addressed are explained in a memorable way to facilitates the understanding and the recall of the learning techniques. What I really liked about this course was the pop up prompts with questions related to the topic explained. I recommend it to everybody who wants to improve her/his learning experience in any area on a day today basis. The tasks help to consolidate what was taught all along course. A very well structure course!