This course was something I looked forward to each day this summer. Dr. Oakley's calming voice and all the research done by her and Terrance was thorough and simplified (compact). I feel that I can apply so many concepts into my job, my health (procrastination), my dreams to accomplish many more academic feats in my lifetime. Many thanks for the post-lesson cue, "I'm Babara Oakley, thanks for learning how to learn" Best, HT

Thanks a lot, Terrence Sejnowski & Barbara Oakley!!!

By your commitment I have learn a lot of how to handle learning of new things!

I am deeply grateful to you for having the patience to try to learn me all this new knowledge about how our brains works when we force it to learn new things! I will have this in my mind when it gets hard, sometimes to learn new things!

Thank you both very much!!! And it have been funny!

Kjell Karlsson

Thanks. The course "Learning how to learn" is realy helpful. I am from Venezuela, and I want to be a writer in english. I know I have some difficulties with irregular verbs and with punctuation. After this course, I started to try daily with those problems.

I am interested in "learning and motivation", And this course has good bibliography about it. I agree with Schopenhauer idea that Motives are the causes views from within us.

I feel immensely grateful to (Prof.) Dr Barbara Oakley and (Prof.) Dr Terry Sejnowski for their invaluable intellectual insights. Their remarkable contributions have not only broadened my perspective but have also enabled me to approach problems in a more critical and analytical manner. Their expertise has been an indispensable asset to my growth and development, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to learn from them.

I have learned a lot how to keep my attention when I am learning. The different ways to learn and how to make a break time during the process for after this I can get back to the learning path again. The Pomodoro Technique is a success, I would like to say that If I hadn´t the time to keep 25 minutes I wouldn´t have failed completely, no never think that, if not that you can start with less time to practice and make the habit.

This courses helped me to understand many problems in classroom . Defines properly the conceptual map of educacional problems and notify the tools to avoid them. As for me the best thing that happened is that i gave a name to the facts that made me a bad student.Now i have bigger motivation and passion too ,to help my students to avoid my mistakes. Greetings from Pyrgos Ilia -Greece ( Χαιρετισμούς από τον Πύργο Ηλείας- Ελλάδα)

When i was in college i had a really tough time finishing and passing my classes, i felt school was really not meant for me.

I wish i would've found this course years before.

Still i think material learned during this previous weeks will strongly help me for future endeavours.

It's amazing to learn all this kind of subjects based on scientific background and taught by really smart people.

Thanks you so much, Barbara and Terrance.

Many thanks to the instructors and university for making this course available. It pointed out some of the flaws and limitations in my learning methods. More importantly, it gave me a road map to improving my learning and long-term comprehension of subjects. I am already using my new developing skills to improve reading comprehension, learning newer complex materials, and being generally more efficient in work and learning.

This course was fantastic. I wish I was aware of all these hints and tips many years ago, however, glad to have been taught these now. Barbara and Terry thank you, as you have provided so many valuable tools to be able to learn more efficiently and understand those tougher concepts. You will change many peoples lives with your courses, most likely you have done so already. I look forward to your books and the following courses

Great course! After completing a three-course MOOC certificate earlier this year, I realized I needed help studying and retaining information. I learned about this course via The Odin Project, signed up the same day, and completed it within two weeks. I find the presentations, techniques, recommendations, and optional videos very helpful. I'm using the techniques to learn CSS and HTML. I appreciate it being available for free.

Truly outstanding and eye opening course. It has been a couple of months now...and am thinking about going through the material once again (to Chunk all the good stuff I was exposed to in the course).

Have shared the course to my Senior Management. While they are all good people I think many of have forgotten the joy and art of learning. I really believe it will be good exposure for them to go through the course themselves.

I am a woman in my late 50s who has been limited in my life, my education, and my employment by lack of confidence in my ability to learn math. In Summer 2016, I will complete all of the classes for a BS degree, all but two math classes. After completing Learning How to Learn, I am confident that, while math may be a challenge, it is a challenge I will overcome.

Thank you for sharing these learning tools with the rest of us!

Wow. This course is great. After just the first couple of videos my brain starting working on how to approach other areas of study differently--much more efficiently. The spacing of material is something I had already know, but the reaffirmation of having to push through has been cemented in my mind. And now I know that that is precisely learning... it entails some degree of being uncomfortable. Thanks. Keep the goods rolling.

one of the courses I think should be obligatory for anyone who is in their studies (colleges, universities, schools, individual studies). the materials are all in simple language, the process is built by their own recommendation of the best memorizing techniques, and it works! more than a year later I still remember the important points I can use for myself and recommend to other people (which I always do). thank you so much!

Great course and highly recommended!

Really well constructed modules and engaging hosts / content, with a healthy dose of joviality throughout the material helping to learn the concepts quickly.

Ideas were presented well, with complex concepts broken down very effectively. Clear commitment from the hosts in covering a lot of bases, as underlined in a vast array of additional (optional) materials and references to other sources.

By far the best course I did in my entire life ! I learned how to deal with a big range of problems that in one way or another everyone deal with. It doesn't matter If you are doing great in school or college or you are flunking, you will learn something new from this course. I found incredible how effective the techniques presented here work and why anybody never told me this techniques before. 5/5 recommended for everyone !

An essential course for all ages and disciplines. Truly beneficial to anyone learning any thing throughout his/her whole life. It includes how the brain works and how to use it efficiently; how to be productive and how to avoid procrastination; how to concentrate and how to memorize; and most importantly some tools and techniques. What is also worth noting is the concise and direct instructors. I highly recommend this course.

damn good,

i wish i could had all this info 30 and more years ago, indeed my past study methods are full of this error (and i really am surprised i have some sort of success... too bad i can't go back in time, but i will try to be better in any study i will do!) thanks a lot to teachers, clear and perfect english speaking (i'm italian and had no problem in understanding their speech.)

i suggest to do this course to all i could.

For full-time students and lifelong learners, this is the perfect course to add powerful tools to imporve deep learning. Being an experienced meditator, I could easily relate with the concepts of alternating focused mode and diffused mode learning. These are the very same concepts we use in the monastery. Eg: Timing your walks and sits (for instance 20min Walking meditation and 20 min Sit) and follow it by a 15 mins of break.

This course will help you develop a strong sense of how you learn. It will teach you about the neurological mechanisms of memory and skill development, as well as give you some critical strategies, tools, and tips so that you can take control of how you learn. Barbara and Terrence are fantastic professors and this was an awesome course that has changed the way I look at my own education, both within the classroom and outside!

Really helpful course that makes you understand how your brain works in order to lear how to learn better. It also gives tips and interesting techniques for studying and memorizing.Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski are so good at their job! They can explain difficult concepts in a very easy way. The whole course is designed with the same techniques that they explain, so you can understand better and learn better.

very good material to study learn how to learn. maybe I will study this course once more, using the skills which I learned from this course.

Actually, I have already been using a lot of skills, like Anki, Supermemo, Mind Map. But I thought still have too many aspects to enhance. And what I have learned from this course will help me a lot to study new things, especially while memories will loss as we getting older.

tks the team

It is a very informative and entertaining course, where every lesson you get great advice for truly learning things more effectively. I have heard about the pomodoro technique before but combined with the more scientific (and fun) explanations i was convinced to try it out, and i think that is the best part about this course, and it is that I finish motivated to keep applying the tips and tricks learned here. Thanks a lot :)

This course simply i consider one of the most powerful courses i have ever taken, also I have gotten enormous information out of this and this what i am planning to apply in my new life career. Finnaly the new skills i have learned are unforgetable and so ease to grasp and apply. One last thing learning how to learn wasn't only a course for me it was a part of mine now. Thank you drs for your efforts through the whole course

This course really helped me to figure out how to learn. I wanted to learn things in the past, start a course but drop interest halfway through. I wish I came across this course at least a decade back. Never the less I have a lot more to learn. Now I know how to learn effectively without dropping the interest. Thank you so much, Professor Barbara Oakley. They way she explained was amazing. I wish I meet here in my lifetime.