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.

At first, I found this course boring 2 modules in, but as I began to digest the material and apply what was being said, I found that I was able to engage better with the material. Plus, it helped to (do as it said) and apply it to the world around me or to someone I know to gain a better understanding, using metaphors and stories worked best for me.

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.

Learn How To Learn is a very awesome MOOC, that contributes to enhancing skills to learn in a more natural way, whatever wanted to learn. It made a bridge between the scientific finds and the normal human being like those of society, whose, ultimately, should always be the goal of any scientific research worldwide.

Paulo Verlaine B. e Azevêdo, Brazil.

This course has gave me some insights which I was initially unaware of. Undoubtedly, it is a course that I highly recommend as it has taught me many techniques and useful tips which I can use and apply in the future. Thank you to the lecturers for all your guidance and my peers for providing me with constructive feedbacks to further improve my work!

Short, easy to digest and although much of the information was known to me in some form or another, it is still very helpful to gain understanding as to why I show certain behaviour. I wish I had known about this when doing my degrees, as I am sure I would have had done a better job of engraining much of what I have learned into my long term memory.

My only disappointment with this course is that I haven't take it prior to enter University. I feel like my studies would have been much more efficient and I would have retained much more knowledge from the classes and books! Anyway, this is a wonderful course that has taught me a lot about I could improve my studies and be much better at my career.

This is a great course and I wish something like that was taught in universities, better yet in schools. In fact, I think it's embarrassing that learning techniques aren't a part of official education. The course is presented very well and has tonnes of very useful information for anyone who's trying to overcome procrastination and learn new skills.

This is a really good course. I'm over 50 years old now, with a successful career in science and IT, but even so I wish someone had sat me down when I first started studying and given me these tools. They are non-intuitive but very effective, and I really appreciate the effort from the instructors in passing on this life-changing knowledge for free.

This course should be absolutely mandatory for students looking to further their education past Middle School. The professors present sound and earnest methods of using one's entire mind to his or her advantage. We even learn how to use our disadvantages to our advantage! This is simply a perfect course for learning the finer points of how to learn.

It was very informative and really helpful. I am a serial procrastinator and I found techniques to tackle procrastination very effective. I'm going to apply those techniques in my life.

Moreover, I found the teachers very good in explaining the concepts. I would love to see them teaching more courses here.

Thank you for designing such a cool course!

Excellent course, a 'must' for students or anyone attempting to learn and retain information. I recommend the course and the book, A Mind for Numbers, to students routinely and use some of the information in workshops on study skills and test-taking. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn and retain information more effectively.

It is a great course esp for aspiring students, teachers (who in turn can teach their students) and parents. I wish these things are imparted and drilled in students at a much earlier age. I knew most of these things but by accident and over a long period of time. Brilliant course - you can even download or see all videos in 1 go like a documentary.