I am a professional software engineer, who has been out of university for 5+ years. Taking this course gave me insight into how we learn, and how to learn effectively. Even though testing is no part of my life now (outside the annual blood test), learning remains a critical piece of working life. This course helped me get more from the texts I read and re-use pertinent information needed in my daily life. Thanks for helping me learn how to learn!

It is excellent and course, to show you how to learn effectively and also cope with procrastination. Well structured course, with each week of the material enables me to apply it right away. By understanding how our brains work, it allows to take control and strategize learning. The interviews with various well-known and successful learners or people at the end of each course week also provide interesting and useful insights about how they learn.

This course became a part of my day. I began to apply what I learned in my studies and in any work I do. It helped me a lot in learning my unlimited mental skills and how to use them and arrange them. I learned from the course that I have to trust in my new system that I started to arrange my time and to organize my ideas so that I can make full use of it. I really trust and use it and thank everyone who helped to bring it out in this smooth way.

Honestly, This was my first course to finish on coursera. before I used to view some courses and leave them by max 2nd week. But That course content is very attractive. you feel like, every think you are looking for, or you want to have answers for, are ready for you. I would do recommend this course to any one who have problems with time management, procrastination, problems with focusing, bad memory.

Thanks Barbara and Sejnowski! really thanks!

Although some students they think it's unnecessary to take such a course, because they have studied since they're born. I don't think so, when people get familiar with somethings, they would become lazy and don't want to change it anymore. This course helps me a lot, I realize I study in an inefficient way and begin to follow this new and efficient way. I also use calendar to plan at the same time. I'm very appreciate for this fantastic course!!!

I stumbled upon this course in a desperate attempt to save my declining memory (I'm 33 so I knew something wasn't right) and I was blown away at how helpful it was! Yes.. it's catered to university or high school student and the graphics are dated but what you learn about your own brain and how it learns is priceless. I'm looking forward to putting my new knowledge to the test daily and feel confident I can continue to learn even as I get older.

This is the perfect course for all the learners out there, including ages of 14 onwards. leaners should generally take this course to enhance their learning and ace their exams. It includes a wide variety of tools and techniques which help to master how your brain works. This can further help you use your brain in an effective manner. Miss Barb Oakley and Mr Terry Sejnowski has done a wonderful work in compiling this course for the new learners.

Thank you Dr Barbara and Dr Terrrence for such a great course! I used to think that I was good for nothing, but now I see it's just my Zombies, and I can really learn anything if I know how to learn. More than anything else it helped me with procrastination. Believe it or not, using these techniques I actually had more done during these 4 weeks than I had in the past year! I strogly recommend this course especially to perfectionsts like myself.

A very powerful course that made me feel that I am not alone with a lot of issues in memory that seemingly are suffered by many people. Also, the course materials depend on science and experiences which are the fundamental basis of strong and trusted materials. Providing references, the way of explaining some terms and issues, the interviews, and the tests are just amazing and helpful. Thank you, Coursera, and thanks to the tutors of the course.

This was a highly engaging and educational class. While the theoretical and scientific underpinnings were interesting, the practical approaches to learning is what really appealed to me. There are so many techniques that I am taking away from this class that I plan to put to use in my learning journey(s). Prof. Oakley is a great teacher and has a knack for teaching complex things using analogies, metaphors and funny visuals. Thank you, Prof!

One of the best MOOCs I have ever taken. It is very practical, and can be used in your everyday life.

The brain is a powerful tool. We use our brains 24*7, and NOT learning how to effectively use this powerful brain is the single biggest mistake anyone can make.

I would recommend this to students, working professionals, teachers, parents of school going children and even to people who are into sports.

Join the course! I promise it will be worth it!

so excited i was able to tske this class as i wsd definitely one of the bad learners and always lacked finishing the product because i didnt focuse more on the process of the task. This wont only help me out in school for IT tech but also in life and any other thing i would to do and learn . So thankful for this oppuritnotu from the great instructors and everybody involved that teached us how to learn and cant wait till change my life around !

I wish I could learn the ideas from Dr. Oakley earlier. But in the other hand with my life experience I've learned much more from this course, because I know what I've done right or not. Actually I am very very very glad, that I've met this course. Dr. Oakley with her scientific argumentation and her kind way of belief that you can do everything gives me the confidence and tools to achieve what I want. It really changes my life. Thanks you all!

This was an amazing course and I think it should be mandatory for students in school having access to virtual libraries. This course has taught me so much and I've realized so many mistakes that I've made while trying to learn something. With all my newly acquired knowledge, I hope to learn many more things, not as a burden but as to improve my skill set. I am very glad that I completed this course and I will surely recommend it to many others.

It's very useful lecture.

It helps me to study more effectively.

But as you know, If you do nothing, Any lectures are useless.

You should find something actually makes you MOVE.

And in my opinion, that "something" is always in your inside.

You don't have to go too far to find "something".

If you want to get an answer from a distance, there will be an answer from a distance.

But If you want to get an answer from nearby, there will be an answer nearby.

From being a Stay At Home Mom of 54 Years, to being a Student after 36years ...

Definitely !!! The most wonderful experience ... The course had so much information, backed by scientific research, step wise explanation, pumped with motivation, making it so very easy to understand,register and remember ( If I got the sequence right).

WOW 3 CHEERS for the group of COURSERA ... For making it happen for new Entrants like me, To the world of Learning.

Not only they help people understand better what's "wrong" with our mode of approach something new. They also give you interviews of people, who work in different fields, which talk about how they could go so far only with a basic and solid tool for learning how to learn.

I'm a person who procrastinates about everything, also daily life tasks. So I strongly suggest approaching this course to understand better how to manage difficult situations.

This is a great course. Its easy to understand and the skills taught are useful. It is like a course refresher for me as the name implies, "Learning to Learn". I am excited taking the quiz at the end of each topic. I am a Malay Language teacher and had just completed my Master in Education. However, after completing this course there is definitely some takeaway for me like example the "Pomodoro Technique".

I enjoyed the course. Thank you!

This course helped in understanding great ways to get stuff done! It is indeed a very refreshing and interesting course and I would highly recommend it to anyone who cares to sharpen his or her skills in terms of optimizing the learning techniques and how to remember and reproduce what we had learned previously.

Faculty (teachers who taught and guided during the course) are subject matter experts and I think it was a good investment of my time!

This should be one of the first MOOCs course to take followed by philosophy, so you can really think and your passion or work related. I really enjoy this course because one of the best toolkit for my studies or work or generally life. Also really inspirational, because this shows that everyone can learn and Coursera and all the MOOCs are helping tons of people without the opportunities. Thank you for this wonder course! You can learn anything!

excellent course, would like to thank Dr Barbara Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski and the team of learning how to learn. They have introduced learning in a whole new perspective which is fun and scientific. You get to learn about how to learn both actively and passively. Excellent lessons in a planned and systematic manner which is filled with fun quizes and activities. My only regret is not taking the course during my freshman year at college!

This course is excellent. One of the best course I did in my life. Tips like pomodoro, deliberate practice, gave me deep insights on to how we really learn and master subjects. More importantly, this course now gave me the confidence that I can learn anything with an attitude of learning even though I have no talent/interest towards it. Thanks for the instructors , for taking the time and putting it all together and giving it free via coursera.

Great course. Things that EVERYONE should know are presented in such a great way. Prof. Oakley's voice sounds so calm, but yet persuading, she really knows how to teach. Dr. Sejnovski brought great facts about how that complex machine called brain works, but in a very understandable manner. Course production is great: sound, images, just everything. I will surely visit most of additional material too, there are very interesting clips and texts.

Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful course. I wish I had known about it years earlier. It is a compilation of a plethora of learning and memory tools, and of how the brain works to explain our motivations and how to work with ourselves. I have already started to implement some of the concepts presented and am learning material better. It is well worth taking, and the additional interviews are motivational. Thank you , thank you, thank you!

I loved this course very much it was fun going through the very helpful and entertaining contents for 4 weeks. I enjoyed Barbara Oakley's lovely sense of humor and Terrance Sejnowski's grate insights. I didn't knew learning could be so fun. Now this course has broadened by perspective in gaining new skills and has encouraged me to learn more, Now I know that I can learn anything if I just put my focus and diffuse mind at work. THANKS A LOT !!!