One of the greatest treasures in our modernity is improving learning techniques, which sometimes come with trial and error, then collecting our own lessons learned and principles, other like this, are practical courses for understanding what is behind, how our brain works, and why some techniques are more effective than others. This is a practical knowledge when applied boost our capabilities and techniques in a world where is a must to move from the confort zone and adapt quickly. Thanks for this remarkable job that will ease our lives from now on.

I learned from this course a lot , unfortunately I didn't complete it due to pressing business conditions as I was diligently searching for a job since my manager fired me because I used to watch the course videos during my break time using the company internet so he counted this situation as an abuse to company resources but I believe he fired me because I'm christian. Anyways, I would like to thank you so much for all the valuable information that I have gained from your course.

Barbra, you are wonderful .... keep up the great work.

Regards,

Mina Samir

This course is amazing, the kind of things that you learn are awesome and very useful because you learn how brains work and why sometimes we don't get the understand of some topics. I recommend this course to any kind of student or professional, this will teach you a lot of useful tools that can improve your job and your life as well. The teachers are concise and the lessons explain the topic without blind points, Dr. Barbara and Dr. Terry are awesome teachers and I can assure you that you will have another kind of thinking after complete the course.

This AWESOME course could help me to remove my bad character of learning process and methodology, actually I tough that my IQ is low since I have spend to much for study on my lessons but after watching course videos and see how our brain nerves system works I realized that not only my IQ is in good range but also I understand that I have creative memory.

All in all this course is the best course that I had I my life and all of you should commence this course ass soon as possible.

Thank you so much in deed Dr. Barbra Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

I have always been curious about how to learn effectively, so I frequently read a lot on related topics. Despite this, I still learn so many new interesting topics in this course! All of them not only cover concept but help to explain on how to turn them into actions, which are very helpful.This course should greatly help students, but even if you aren't a student, I still believe it's beneficial as we all need to learn new things (especially in this world of rapid change).Highly recommend to give it a try! It's only 4-weeks long, truly worth it :)

thanks. This course makes me more confident in learning new things, to grow & change, to maximize using Coursera courses I am taking & will be taking. For all those involved in Coursera & this course, thank you soooo much for having worked so hard to make these courses accessible, as I am unable to further my formal education, but I can still learn by enrolling in Coursera. Coursera is a very powerful source for me to be more competitive in the workplace. And this course will enable me to absorb more knowledge & skills in my office or other fields.

This course has been an eye-opener on many levels. It really helped me put things in perspective as far as learning any subject is concerned. Some of the tips resonated with what I've been hearing about education & learning since my growing up days, but I wouldn't have known what my deficiencies/drawbacks had I not taken this course. This course made me reflect about myself & my methods. As Prof. Oakley has stressed in this course, "One has to take responsibility for his/her own learning" and I would highly recommend this course. Happy Learning !!!

This course turned everything I was ever told and taught about learning and studying on its head. When in school, I had always been told to focus on studying and homework for long periods of time, and nott to stop until I was either done, or until I could recall the information flawlessly. Knowin what I know now about long term memory, working memory, and diffuse, I wish students in school had access to this information. I intend on telling everyone about this course, as I truly believe its lessons and information are that impactful and valuable.

This course is such a helpful course for those who want to delve in deeper in cognitive psychology while learning new ways in how to learn more efficiently. It's a great course and the instructors are the type of professors you can easily get along with. It's an easy four week course and I highly recommend this as a first course for the first timers as it will be a good reminder that learning isn't just about reading books or making notes. It's also how you put that knowledge in your life and how to deeply ingrain it in one's mind for a long time.

This is very useful course prepared and conduct by Dr. Barbara, it absolutely changes my perspective of learning and put me in new path to learning, I do recommend this course and training to all of you with any ages, seniority level or education background.

Prior to this training, I almost give-up new training and skills and prepare myself for going to sidewalk in terms of updating my skills and learning objective, but I am more confidence that I can learn new skills, knowledge and catch-up.

Thanks to this training and Dr. Barbra, God bless you.

I highly recommend this course, not only you benefit from learning new technique, but you also know you are on the right path, you get inspired from people interviewed in this course, how they learned and always went after learning, they never lost their goal and found a way to learn what they set their mind to, finally, it made me really t always learn till the rest of my life. what is great about this course, that instructors support their concepts with scientific evidences, this reinforce your willpower to learn and improve your understanding.

It was such a pleasure to be in Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski's MOOC. I feel sad that I've finished the course, but I have already put holds on Dr. Oakley's books and currently reading one. The way she writes and the way she lectures is the same - engaging, funny, and thought-provoking. Thank you for this course, I have already begun to change my thoughts as advised in one of the lessons, and it has been doing wonders for me every day. The techniques mentioned here are applicable to everything that I do and not just in the classroom. Thanks again!

This course was one of those life-changing moments for me. At the end of my first degree, I felt that the learning methods I used were not effective enough, and I wanted to know better. I stumbled upon this course and the rest is history. It really changed my learning, and I feel much more confident now about my abilities and about my future learning. I would also like to thank the instructors, and professor Barbara Oakley in particular, for providing a supportive learning environment, that inspires the students to believe in themselves and grow.

This course is so intriguing. As a Psychology major during my undergraduate studies, the content presented in it really brought me back to what I've been learning in my courses. In addition to this, the analogies that the professors used to illustrate examples of concepts really made it easier for me to grasp the content of the course. It really rocks. I would absolutely recommend it to everyone who want to take an online course or just want to improve the way they learn. Go Coursera! Go McMaster University! Go University of California San Diego!

It is Must do course for all to understand how well we can harness the power of brain to learn better and effectively any subjects.

They have given lots of practical and interesting suggestions to improve our learning. They are so simple techniques that we do sometime unknowingly or saw someone doing it, but we ignore it most of the time.

Now that we can see what they do actually to our learning , we ca kind of hack the mid to learn the stuff we need.

I am still doing the course and finding it interesting .. i will surely recommend it to others .

I would like to thank Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for putting together such a wonderful class.

The great techniques put forth from test taking to tips on avoiding procrastination, to the memory palace for remembering lists and focusing on process and not on results were were very well put forward in this class.

I am a 60 year old adult, who has lost complete faith that she can read and learn. This class has given me courage to move on and has given me a great sense of accomplishment. And has also taught me a lot along the way.

Amazing course

It's tips on memory, how to beat procrastination, and the use of focused and diffuse attention modes, as well as the diferences between working memory and long term memory and how they work, without forgetting the best ways of learning and the not so effective common practices called illusions of competence really were very helpful ideas that I'm decided to review them in spared days of the week to best retain them in my mind

Thanks to the team that made this possible

and a special thanks to Barbara and Terrence.

Cheers from Brazil :)

It helps me to understand that you don't have to be smart to learn but it's learning by using effective ways. This course helps me to understand why procrastination happened and how we can resolve this. The content is extremely easy to understand and the videos are short and simple. Each week's about 40 minutes commitment and you are good to go. There are also extra reading and material given for us to take a deeper understanding in a scientific way that can help us learn effectively. Thanks to this, I now know how should I approach my studies

From where to begin,Well this course by far exceeded my expectations. It changed my way of thinking (gradually not suddenly) and the way I receive things.It helps me see things from a big picture like for example if you're struggling with material , it is not the end of the world , you just have a good sleep and come back tomorrow in which you would find the material much easier . It helps you tackle procrastination and memory issues and addresses you with simple yet power techniques you can master subject.Thank you Barabara,I loved her so much

I am so happy I learned about this course after listening to Dr. Barbara Oakley interview with Matt Bodnar at the podcast The Science of Success. I am a reentry, transfer student about to start one of my biggest challenges, a BS degree in Cognitive Science with emphasis in Neuroscience. This course provided me with research based techniques that I am sure will be extremely helpful and positively impact my future grades and study life. Thank you Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for this fascinating course. I highly recommend it!

Ce cours devrait être suivi avant tout autre. Il donne les bases essentielles du fonctionnement du cerveau et permet à chacun de repérer, d'expérimenter de nouvelles approches neuro-économiques beaucoup plus efficaces. Ce cours m'est doublement utile :

En tant qu'apprenant, il est très agréable à suivre et révèle nos tendances ou nos habitudes peu efficaces.

En tant que concepteur de formation e-learning, il permet de concevoir des séquences d'apprentissage efficientes. Je remercie chaleureusement T. Sejnowski, F. Crick et B. Oakley.

This course is very useful and practicable despite of some obvious things at the beginning and not very useful 'additional videos'. I have already started to apply the knowledge I received during this wonderful course and I will, certainly, pass this knowledge to my relatives and friends to enhance their ability to learn and be smarter. Thank you very much Barbara and Teren! Thank you very much entire team who took part in organization of the course and definitely big 'thank you' to Coursera for such marvelous opportunities in online studying!

This was a very good course. I think it is accessible to a very wide audience ranging from high schoolers to doctorates. Even people with high education and a lot of studying behind can learn studying tips from this course.

The presentation is geared more towards wider audiences. However, the more reading -sections and references are exceptionally well written and detailed, and provide a great starting place for those willing to delve more deeply in the subject.

I warmly recommend this course to anyone wanting to improve their learning skills!

As explained in the final videos by the instructors, all our learning efforts in life are focused largely on the product of learning rather than on the process of learning. This course fills this gap and provides opportunity to take a step back and relate to what your process of learning has been what you have been missing. I am sure after completing this you will walk out with new tools, better understanding of your own learning methods and apply more consciously and confidently what you learn here in improving your PROCESS of your learning!

This course is very informative and practical - you can start improving your learning immediately after watching the first video. In fact, the first impression was that the course was very easy and it presented many obvious things. But in hindsight, after revising all the material, trying to summarise it in the final project and understanding what amount of work must have been done for this course to appear... I can only say that this course is remarkable. Huge gratitude to Barbara Oakley, Terry Sejnowski, and the Learning How to Learn Team!