I wish I had this course before I started college. I'm pretty sure at one point or another I did everything exactly opposite of what this course teaches. I often crammed, did not study effectively, and definitely fooled myself on multiple occasions of thinking I understood material.

Everyone who is serious about learning better should take this course.

This course has taught me the key points and methods to improve the learning processes more effectively and efficiency. There are plenty of helpful hits, skills and strategies for gaining better performance in the my study processes. Now I have more understanding the factors of successfully learning and being more concentrate in new things learning.

Excellent ... my knowledge on this topic has grown significantly, it has a logical thread, and have done significant work to make it fun ...

Excelente...mi conocimiento sobre este tema ha crecido de forma importante, tiene un hilo conductor lógico, y han hecho un trabajo importante en hacerlo divertido...

gracias totales!!

Fabian Molina from ECUADOR

Exceptional course. The knowledge you will gain from this course will serve you for your entire life. Honestly I wish I had known about this course sooner in my life. Definitely recommend to anyone from any background and at any age. I guarantee you will learn something that will be incredibly beneficial to you if you ever have to learn something new.

this course helped me to better understand the basic tools i need to learn and how to better myself through learning.Barbara is one of the best teachers i had and her life story just motivated me to try and learn new aspects or subjects that i didn't think or wasn't confident enough that i can learn or even understand (besides engineering).Thank a lot

It is a great course! I am learning this at the age of 54. I wish I would have got this course or the teachers when I was in school or college. no doubt this course is backed by scientific research in this area. thank you Coursera team for bringing out this course. Thank you, Prof. DR. BARBARA OAKLEY & DR. TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI for inspiring teaching.

I want to recommend this course because my experience was gratifying. I have learning problems such as dyslexia and Disorder Attention Disorder, for this reason, it is very important for me to learn a correct and adequate way of studying. I am very satisfied with what I learned in this course and I am sure that it will be something useful all my life.

An eye-opening course that gives you the confidence to approach learning on almost anything. Even if many ideas presented in this course are intuitive, for example using recall to make sure information is persisted in your memory, you will gain more self-awareness in the process of studying/working and you can start applying the knowledge to yourself.

I guess I didn't want it to end because I kept extending the deadline. I wanted it to keep going and giving things to think about and learn. I am still processing everything, but I see myself using this information for myself and in my somewhat new career as an ESL teacher. Many thanks for everyone that made this course happen and made it so coooool!

Excellent overview, great simple, relaxing presentation and important content. I would love a class that focused more on the neuroscience and hard biology of the topic of effective learning and retention. A video concentrating on tactics for unlearning incorrectly learned facts and habits and reducing Einstellung will improve the course in my opinion.

Wow this course has seriously helped me open my mind on how I learn things. So many true things in this course that I experienced and now know why. I'm pumped for my future. I want to learn everything even things outside my possible career choices. With these tools I can truly break the barriers of learning. Break old habits and teach myself new ones.

I love this course. When I am starting to struggle in a class and cannot figure out what I am doing wrong I always come back to this course to review. Barbara Oakley you are an amazing person and you encouraged me to give collage another try despite my learning disabilities.

Thank you, and thank you to everyone else who make this course possible.

Troy

This is a very useful course in understanding the learning process.

You get to learn about the what happens inside your brain when we try to learn a new thing, how it is moved into your long term memory.

I found the simple tools and techniques like pomodoro, testing breaks very useful.

Thanks a lot! ..... to the UC team for making this course available.

I'm just one week away of finishing this course, but I can already tell that is been the most effective learning course I ever take. The technique I already learn have been of so much help in the resent days of my life. even if it work or studies or simple life, everything you'll learn in this course will help you to improve your skills and abilities.

Love it! Such a wonderful opportunity to explore effective texhniques of learning. I am already integrating some of them. Realeal mindshift here for me is to star using breaks and rewards. Never even thought about it and that was such an insight on the course. Thank you for all the materials. Its' toally worth of psending time learning how to learn.

It was a good course, I enjoyed it and gained insights and practical guidance on how to improve my own learning. I really enjoyed the supplementary interviews, especially those at the end of the course, and would recommend that future students be encouraged to watch them. I'd like to congratulate the professors and extend my thanks to the whole team.

This is one of the most powerful courses I completed. It practically changed the way I look at learning and has kindled in me a fire for life long learning. Thanks a lot Barbara and Terrence Sejnowski for putting together this incredible course for the benefit of one and all. This act of yours is life changing for people like me. Thanks once again.

I learned a lot and really good and valuable helping techniques from this course, It would have been much more beneficial if I could have know this course much earlier part of my life. As said nothing is late if we can use the benefits of this course in my horning courses that I have planned in my mid carrier life.

Thank you!

Best Regards,

Venkatesan.R

This is a wonderful course. Everyone who is interested to improve their learning should take this asap. During studying this course often I wondered why there was no course like this during my school/college days. Better late than never for me :). Do take this course. Thanks a lot to the course creators for creating this superb, very relevant course.

A doorway to understanding your mind from the learning perspective. I do not think that this course is only for students who are trying to acquire new knowledge but this course is for everyone who understands the value of learning new knowledge in our personal and professional lives. In general this course is a must for people from all walks of life.

In just 4 quick weeks the course provides techniques, explanations and encouragement to improve in your intellectual development. The mandatory content of the course is only around 8-10h of videos. That is much less than binge-watching a season of your favorite show on Netflix. Make yourself the gift of going through this course. You won't regret it.

I would recommend this course to everyone including working professionals. This course is not limited only to learners of a course of studies. The concepts are extremely useful and I already see terrific self-improvement in my work and learning. Thanks to Coursera for hosting such a wonderful course. Last, but not the least the trainers were awesome.

Considero que el curso es espectacular, sobre todo en función de técnicas de estudio e ideas generales para cambiar la forma de ver el proceso de aprendizaje.

Por otro lado es interesante ver que dentro de las cosas que uno puede lograr como estudiante, es dormir, descansar, buscar otros espacios de aprendizaje y siempre estar dispuesto para aprender.

This should be taught to everyone at High school. I believe I learnt a lesson not only about my capability to learn anything I want, but a lesson that can easily be transferred to many areas of my life. Thanks coursera! I am finding ways to share the principles with my students ... its the least I could do to give someone a chance to succeed in life.