Provides practical and applicable insights into how the physiology of the brain impacts learning. You learn what the brain is doing when you study, and how to maximize your study time. This course greatly aided my retention and understanding for my comprehensive exams in law. Strongly recommended for anyone interested in learning, whether in math, science, humanities, or law.

I think this lesson is quite different from the others, for it offers some new methods of how to learn better ,which I have not heard before. Surprisingly, it gives us quite a lot of information about the relationship between our learning skills and architecture of our brains.I think this lesson matters a lot in my whole life, for I am always learning new things on my life way.

I wish I had discovered this course before I graduated from my university. It took me a while to discover by trial and error some of the concepts from the course which would make my university time much more productive and some of the concepts were totally new to me. I hope other people will be more lucky than I was and will discover and incorporate this much earlier in life :)

The course is introduces you to many practice techniques to improve your learning. The potential field application is extremely broad and I think that this is why its the most popular course. I think it would be helpful to improve upon the practical area of the course by having things like "ok pause this video and go exercise" to really embed the suggestions into us students.

I expected to learn a bunch of study strategies from this course but instead, I've learned how our brains work, and it especially helped in building mindfulness and positive thinking, not just learning a new subject.Although those study strategies are definitely useful while learning a new subject, the whole course's material is applicable to the concept of learning in general.

Although I have already practiced ~80% of the techniques taught in this course (i.e. Pomodoro, spaced repetition, getting enough sleep, recall, testing self, etc.), I still learned new things, and this course convinced me that I've been doing the right things but can make some improvements. I especially love the zombies! They remind me of Plants vs. Zombies in an endearing way.

Very informative with great references for those who want to dive deeper not only into practical steps for great learning but also into the psychology and neuroscience of learning. With lecturers that seem genuinely passionate about the subject matter and test-questions that are neither too hard nor seeking excessively personal information. Feels so great learning how to learn!

Trully effective and usefull techniques are shared in this course. I now have additional and upgraded style of learning. Highly recommended for students struggling to cope up with their subjects and assignments. Its enjoyable to learn new things such as this approach. I wish i had this lectures during my Highschool and college time. I may be an Honor students during my time..

Very beneficial course, telling you how your brain works and how you can get the most out of it, you do not have to be genius or gifted to have a good memory or do great stuff. Your brain is a gift and you can just know how to use it. many techniques I have learned to be used during studying any subject. I even learned how to overcome procrastination and help improve my memory

Out of tenths of MOOCs i have started, i've only finished two, and this is the second of them. If you know about MOOCs statistics, that would say enough, but not to be so short in words, the course is good and keeps you engaged because it teaches you usable, applicable concepts, that require just a fair amount of time to go through, and that are taught in a accessible way. 5/5

Extremely useful course. I wish I had been exposed to this information two decades ago. I have started to use techniques learned not only in studying but also in other areas of both my personal and professional life. Learning is part of our personal lifelong evolution. It is a gift to learn how to improve this process. Thanks to the professors for their wonderful contribution.

This course helped me realize some of the methods I was using to learn were extremely helpful and employed me to continue using those methods as well as adding on some new ones I had never heard of. It also made me understand a lot of the underlying processes going on inside my brain when I am learning new things, which will hopefully empower me to learn better in the future.

Thank you for this great course. I really enjoyed it. I hope that the things I've learned in here will help me in learning new things. It was really interesting to watch and it made me realize why I may have struggled to learn throught my life because many points that are made in this course have been my problems and now I have some understanding on how to fight it. Thank you

This course has taught me very meaningful and useful things about the brain and the wrong, smart, effective and efficient ways of learning and studying. Through this, I feel motivated to study for my upcoming midterms and to continue studying and learning with the techniques I've learned. Thank you so much to the amazing professors for teaching me so well! God bless everyone!

This course was very beneficial on my current studies. It reminded me to not push myself, but to know when to take a break and sort out problems later. Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski really lightened up my understanding and I can't wait to start the next course "Mindshift". Overall, this course was very interesting to learn about. May you all have a great study session!

Very refreshing and a great course to understand how to brain works. It provides lot of techniques to improve your ability to learn and understand things which you are both interested in and even the ones which you fear and procrastinate. I will recommend this course to everyone irrespective of their backgrounds to take this course and become a better learner. Happy Learning!

Learned so much, is very much so learning the science of your brain and how to apply that science to everything in life. I believe if you actually applied all these things to your core skills and habits you could achieve an amazing level of non-stop efficiency. At very first the videos seem kind of dated and a little slow, but you quickly get into it and respect the speakers.

A very useful course! Especially together with a book Mind for Numbers!

I knew about the Pomodoro technique before, but I wasn't enthusiastic enough to use it. But after getting to know that it's better to concentrate on the process not on the product during that course, this Pomodoro technique has more sense for me now and I am more likely to use it.

Thank you for the course!

A spectacular course for anyone who is having a difficult time learning subjects that are new to them, or who is working on completing a long-term project, or just anyone who likes to learn but wants to optimize their learning habits. This class is absolutely super for all of those needs and has helped me quite a lot. Thanks so much!! :) It gets an A+ in my book, for sure! ;)

This course taught me how to learn, introduced me to a lot of other things I wanna learn about, it taught me how to teach, it taught me how to read! (I had it completely wrong!) it taught me, to some extent, how to remember. And most importantly, it taught me how to beat procrastination. I am already teaching two people these course's techniques. Thank you Dr. Barbara Oakley!

Excellent course! Really easy to understand and apply to your own studies. If you are wanting to get better grades on exams or more fully understand the material you are learning in class (or at work/in life) this course is super helpful in teaching you how to use research in neuroscience to memorise material, avoid procrastination and overall improve your learning abilities!

This course is full of great ideas on how to effectively learn and understand different subjects, its helpful in every area of life, I'm happy that I took part in this course and grateful to the people that put this materials together and also to the nice and wonderful Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski that delivered this course. It will surely help me in life going forward.

I regret that I never stumbled upon this course or anything near it earlier. The materials, logical structure of the course, the amount of knowlege doses given during each video lecture, the references, the quality of interviews and interviewees and tests are all carefully prepared to maximise the learning outcome. Above all, they are presented in fun and an interesting way.

This course was amazing! I truly believe the content in this course can help so many struggling students who incorrectly think they are "not smart". Using these techniques, especially at an early age, can drastically change someone's life. I wish I knew this information when I was in school! Great teachers, amazing content. One of the best Coursera courses I have ever taken!

I really enjoyed this course and found the lessons to be invaluable. I have always been very curious and an enthusiastic learner but never approached my learning in a strategic fashion. This course has equipped me with many tools to improve the efficiency and efficacy of my learning which I have already begun to implement. Barabara Oakley is also a wonderful course director!