The course is a well presented material on how your mind works and how to take control of your learning process, not only during academic years, but for the entirety of your life. I, heartly, recommend this course for anyone that has problems procrastinating, feeling insecure about their own intelligence or simply wants to become a more efficient learner.

Very helpfull course! A bit dry (or is that just a Dutch phrase?), but good information. Learned a lot about my learning in the past and why certain things worked and others didn't. It will make my learning in the future most certainly more easy. I can't believe there is no course like this in highschool and universities (at least not in The Netherlands).

Absolutely amazing! This should be mandatory as a high school senior in my personal opinion. I'm a 27 year old business owner looking to add more tools to my belt and wanted to learn how to learn more effectively. This course has been incredibly helpful and I will be referring friends and family to this. If you can, I recommend listening in 1.25x speed.

Excellent class which provides exceptional research based methods related to studying and how we learn best. Wish i had access to this earlier in life. The methods i frequently use are not the most effective for retaining information. This class has provided me with valuable tools and the knowledge I need to learn and retain information more effectively.

Very good course for everyone to give it a go, these are not hard to tackle, and clear up a lot of your wrong way of thinking about memory and learning. If you are someone who has a bit of knowledge on habits, behaviors and a little bit on neuroscience, you can easily go over this course pretty quickly and gain immense insights for your learning journey.

I highly recommend this course who are curious about fulfill their life by experience many things. I mean, it is very helpful to boost our natural ability to learn anything in life. By learning how to learn, things take much shorter time. The course is also helpful to destroy your pessimism, which is the most powerful enemy in the face of your learning.

This course was absolut amazing, starting with the people, the structure of it, the way they talk in a calm a gentle way and the amount of information that is given to you, just to feed a curiosity to learn more about the particular topic. I wish my teacher in faculty would be more like them or at least try to give us the information in a structured way.

Impressively designed and presented. The small tests and the repetitions, offset in time and context, were in the spirit of what was taught. I really liked the dynamic marking of the text parallel to the video. The large selection of (language) subtitles is also impressive. The "illusion of presence" was also very good.

You deserve all 5 stars. Thank you.

Excellent Course

Easy to follow content and explanations backed up by extensive literature (from day to day to very deep cientific articles)

I wish I had taken this course when I was in college - re-reading was by far the method I used for testing and learning - never heard of recalling before. Very pleased to have learned something new, among other stuff.

I really enjoyed this course. The information was given in an easy to understand way. The additional reading materials were really useful as well. I fount several useful techniques for improving my study-habits and it inspired me to take another look at maths and science. I recommend this course for anyone looking for inspiration and/or self-development.

This is a "first class course" I recommend anybody to take irrespective of their educational level and credentials. I have had fun all the way from start to end. I am already teaching my 8 year daughter what I learned. She is very very happy too. Barbara and Terrence, good job and thank you very much. Fernando Marcelo Landaburu in Buenos Aires, Argentina

I didn't expect much from this course but how much that was blown out of the water! From the start this course showed me areas to enhance my former methods of learning (which was insufficient). Especially the aspect on what cramming produces and what is truly needed to become a lifelong learner. I will recommend this course for anyone studying ANY field!

This course has much similarity to the book "A Mind For Numbers", but in this course there are some valuable interviews in which experts in different areas share their learning methods. Both the lecture and the book revealed interesting knowledge about our brains and provides intructions on how to use it correctly. Overall, it's a lesson worth listening.

I am a 2015 college pass out student ,worked in IT field for 1.5years and now planning to learn new technologies to take a new step in my career. I am thankful for the 'Learning How to Learn Team' for the tips and encouragement that you have given me to make a first step. Will keep in my mind and work on those tips in my future learning .

Thank you Team..

This is a fantastic course, plenty of additional features besides the course are offered! The instructors keep the material interesting and informative. This course provides interview with skilled learners and people who have used learning tools to achieve success in their career. This course is great for ADHD people, I am ADHD myself. Happy learning!

I found it extremely interesting and useful. It is a compact course but has given great mental tools to help in learning.The list of optional readings is helpful in getting a deeper understanding. I feel quizzes could have been a little more challenging. I really enjoyed the videos and from them have learnt how to deliver a video lecture.Thank you

I highly recommend this course to everyone, young and mature students alike. This course is applicable to all types of learning and to different disciplines. Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski explained key concepts really well. I enjoyed the interviews and the optional reading materials too. To everyone who engineered this course, well done!

This was an excellent course. The lessons were easy to follow and they used a plethora of techniques that they were teaching to make the concepts easily understandable. The course taught me techniques about learning which makes acquiring any future knowledge much easier. I wish I had known these methods sooner. The tests should have been harder, though.

Thank you for such an exciting learning experience. I now have a better understanding of the challenges experienced through my life with learning. I have gained, through this course, a better understanding of how the brain functions and how simply I am able to tap into these basic fundamentals of learning to make a difference. This material is golden!

All the things that are mentioned in the course are helpful for anyone who want to learn new skills effectively, who thinks that they don't have what it takes to learn any difficult subjects. I wish I knew these teachings before when I was school or college, but now I know it and I'm certainly gonna take it in use. Do give it a try, you won't regret it.

This course is really good. It explains how our brain works, how we can deal with procrastination, how to change a habit, what happens in our brains when we learn something new, what we should do to really learn and what to avoid.

I highly recommend this course for everybody who wants to understand how our brain works and how we can develop ourselves. :)

This was an eye opening course for me. I learned a lot of new tools and concepts and a whole new way to approach learning. I wish this had been available to me when I was a student but I feel it has tremendous value for anyone who wants to learn something new. The instructors were great and presented the material in an easy to understand and fun way.

This course has been immensely useful in identifying the mistakes I was making in learning new things. I have been able to understand why even after putting in a lot of effort my grasp of concepts remained brittle and prone to be forgotten when recalling after some time. This is a must take course for anyone who like me is struggling to master concepts.

Well, this was the first MOOC I've ever completed. The course has provided a tremendous amount of knowledge. It has given a deep understanding of some of the issues related my learning problems. The material was designed with the help of highly professionals in the field of education and learning. I really appreciate the efforts made by Coursera Team.

This course was a great combination of understanding how the human brain works and different techniques to actually improve ones learning abilities by studying more effectively. The material was presented in a really positive way and created a lot of motivation to pursue ones dreams and view studying from a different, much less frustrating perspective.