I never thought about the technique of learning and memorization until I started learning programming. A very good course with a deep description of everything that will help you learn better and more efficiently. I consider the course mandatory before starting to learn something new. I'm sure most of us have never been taught how to study properly. Thank you to everyone who has made an effort to create these wonderful courses! Go through it, you won't regret it. Good luck to all!

Many tips and strategies, which combine to make a great toolkit to enhance learning and thinking.

I have used many of these ideas previously. I accumulated them over a long life of learning, but this course distills most of what I've learnt about learning, plus adds some extra bits. It is well presented in a short course that I would recommend to learners / parents of learners, at all stages of learning.

I wish I'd had access to this 40+ years ago!

Thanks Barbara, Terry and friends!

I never even realized I did not know how to actually learn and how to properly study. When you get labeled as a 'gifted' kid early on in life, you think you're invincible because it's easier to understand things. But if you don't actually LEARN how to learn, this is only sustainable for so long before you realize you can't keep up. I didn't even realize how bad my study habits were before taking this course so that I can better learn how to code. Thank you so, so much to Barbara!

I think that was one of the most interesting courses I have taken. I have fun watching those videos and doing the tasks, it helps me identify my problems with learning and deal with them to be more productive. Every concept was explained in a simple way that every person will understand. I think that every course should be like that. I advise everyone taking the course to watch the optional interviews. They are very helpful and give us true stories from which we can learn a lot.

Through this course, I learned about working and long-term memory mechanisms.

I find out that my style of studying in 20 years of education (from grade 1 to half of my PhD.) was inappropriate.

Now, I know about the power of recall, deliberate excercises and of course a full night sleep before an important test. I think if I knew these facts when I was at highschool my life would be different.

I wish healthy joyful life for prof. Oakly and Senjowsky, as they change rest of my life.

Very useful to learn the main effective techniques to learn and quickly grasp why they work. Definitely many tips and tricks that I'm gonna use in my life, either for personal learning and for professional one.

These tips and tricks are useful regardless of the subject. If you wanna learn how to play the piano, how to juggle, what the fundamentals of art history in the XVIIe, what are the capital cities of each country of the world or basically… anything else, this MOOC's for you!

I want to thank everyone who took part in formulating such an informative, thought-provoking, and challenging course. I have learned a lot and I will continue to review and practice the concepts and skills that were covered. These lessons may be applied across the humanities and are helpful across the masses. I have learned more about myself and plan to share information with others, as I analyze and build up/breakdown more of myself. Thank you.

Barbara Oakley! Terrence Sejnowski!

This is an excellent course on learning with life changing ideas and techniques.Barbara did an excellent job of explaining concepts in a simple and easy to understand manner. Every lecture is only 3 - 6 minutes long so it doesn't require a huge time commitment.I had a lot of fun learning how to learn and I can't wait to incorporate what I learned to my every day life. Thank you Barbara!This course should be a compulsory curriculum for students all over the world. It is that good!

A highly recommended course for everyone struggling with memory, concentration and learning issues while learning something new. The modules were extremely well sorted and easily explained to help grasp the key concepts of learning. Learned a lot form this course. I sincerely hope to put to use all the facts and techniques I acquired from this course in my daily life and improve my lifestyle. Thanks a lot for the course!

Eagerly looking forward to learning more from coursera.

This course is literally a stargate for everyone has had problems to accomplish a long and structured course of study due to what Barbara calls properly " zombie " thus, thanks to all the helpfull tools learned here I'm pretty sure that I'll be able to grow my knowledge upon matters i love and really desire to study in my future for my career . At least, from the deep of my heart, thank you for your efforts and willingness to positively influence our lifes . Mirko L. Bosio

This is a very interesting course for those who want to get an insight of how some people succeed in bringing the best out of them while many others struggle. The methods and tips discussed in the course are very helpful and easy to apply it in real world problems.The course is made concise and doesn't take up too much of time. 2 hours in a week should be enough to complete the course in 4 weeks. The explanation of topics are also done very well that makes it easy to understand.

This course does something that I think every education system should use as a hard foundation to their teaching philosophy, it teaches people how to learn effectively and efficiently. It is incredibly frustrating that in my 18+ years as a student through primary education and on to graduate levels, I was never meaningfully taught how to study for myself but this course has done an outstanding job of doing just that. This should be required learning for every education system.

Thanks for giving me the opportunity to rethink parts of my work as teacher. During the sessions of this course I already gave my students some hints, such as "pomodoro" (it was the first time I heard about it, although I'm Italian :)). The next step will be encouraging those who struggle with study and giving them some tools.

Another thing I love is returning to be a student and taking tests: this helps me understanding what's going on in the students mind.

Grazie mille e ciao!!

Though I did not take the paid certificate option because I do not have the funds right now, I appreciate the fact that I can learn such wonderful techniques and tools from people who have been able to break through barriers in their own fields. Thanks to Drs. Oakley and Sejnowski, I feel like I have a lot of zombie super-powers now. If you want to know why you have not been doing so well with some courses, this is the class for you. Would probably be the best month of your life

Great and well-explained information on the subject. Plenty of relevant info on the brain and body in relation to both learning and well-being, as well as practical study tools and practices. The course also had a great structure; well-built for retention of the material, and applying the principles explained in the course. Really happy with the experience and information provided, and I will make sure to apply the information and learning tools during my pursuit of knowledge :)

This is my first course on this site and I really enjoyed it. The interesting thing is, some of the things the professors spoke about are things I've done before but it wasn't that effective because I did it wrong. This course simply teaches how to learn effectively but it's up to you to practice what you've been thought. The professors are wonderful and so are the interviews. Either you are having difficulty studying or you want to improve your studies, this course is great!

Me encanto el curso, las clases son muy entretenida y fácil de entender, tienen mucho material para seguir aprendido. Aprendí mucho sobre la mejor forma de aprender como mejorar nuestras técnicas de estudio para mejorar la retención de la información. Entender sobre la neurociencia de como nuestro cerebro trabaja al momento que estamos aprendiendo cosas y como optimizar el aprendizaje es de mucha utilidad para la vida diaria y en nuestras carreras profesionales. Muchas gracias.

This course was amazing. Barbara explains in a very friendly, easy to understand way, making the content more interesting and easy to follow.

As someone who has always procrastinated so much that I could never finish a Coursera course, this was the first one I was able to finish thanks to the many tips they share, and I can see myself using these tips not only in learning but also in real life. It was a real pleasure to follow this journey, thank you for your energy and passion!

I loved this course. I learned very valuable tools to help with my future studies and also in my professional career such as the Pomodoro technique, Chunking and using metaphors and analogies to learn. Mostly, I learned that I was a poor listener and often went into Zombie mode while learning, or in meetings. I suffered from Illusions of Competence. This was huge for me! I applied the concepts of this class in order to help me develop some solid study habits and it worked!

The explanations are interesting. I like it that there are transcripts to follow as i am a visual learner.. i understand better if i listen and read as well as take down important notes. Prof Barkley sometimes speaks rather softly and i have to put the volume on my laptop to max. Otherwise, everything else is great! i also like the questions asked after most of the videos.. they help me to recall important facts about the videos and test my understanding... Good Job professors!

This course helped me to realize and pinpoint a lot of the really bad habits that I've always had while learning anything. It has also taught quite a few really nice and effective methods to be able to leave those bad habits as well to learn in the most efficient way, just as the name suggests. I'm thankful to the instructors for this amazing course, and would suggest everyone like me, who has always had problems with performing well even after spending a lot of time preparing.

The course was a joy to take! So many interesting topics, interviews and explanations. Loads of interesting and useful material to learn to approach, examine and study any subject. It clearly opens a path for a better and easier way of learning whatever we want. Both instructors were kind and generous with their knowledge and way of conducting their classes. Special thanks to Mrs. Barbara Oakley for her kindness and warm way of explaining and teaching all. Such a sweet lady !!

Fantastic course! Wish I had taken this class and/or read Dr. Oakley's book when I was an undergraduate in college and/or in graduate/B-school. So many wonderful trips and tricks for getting the most out of your education and learning experience. I enrolled in the course to learn new and effective methods for absorbing and applying information more quickly in my professional working life, while also balancing the demands of running a start-up in the evenings. Five-star course!

This course helps me extremely a lot in not only from the learning aspect, also from the aspect of life and career. To know the focus and the diffuse mode, and how to deal with procrastination are definitely things that start to help my learning much more effective. The fact that even average intelligent people can accomplish extradinary things help me to change my thoughts about those genius people and also motivate me to accomplish something that I do not dare to try before.

Probably you already know some tools that are explained here, but now you can learn also which ones are the most effective and why, thanks to the neuroscience aspects covered.

It's a revolutionary and complete course on 'Learning about learning'. There are well structured units, each done exhaustively. Lessons are short and make you fix the point, so they are not boring and are perfect for both poor and model students.

The only requirement, in my opinion, is to want to improve.