This is the first course that I was able to finish due to the interesting topics and the way they are delivered. While I am already a 30-year old professional, all ideas here will help me be a more productive individual optimizing my learning from all that I read and experience. My only regret is not taking this earlier. Even the optional videos are must-see. I recommend this to everyone that are in Coursera to include this on the first courses that they take here. Thank you very much, Dr. Barbara Oakley. I would want a part 2.

I admit that it is one of the courses that is very useful to me. Although the course is quite old. But it really helped me a lot. As for the exam, I don't know if it's too easy or not creative enough. I feel it can be improved. But overall it was a very good course. This course is for anyone who is still hesitating whether to take this course or not. I highly recommend it to anyone who considers themselves to be a poor student or not confident in their own learning?

It definitely helps you a lot. and opens up more ways to learn

This is an excellent course. I learned new techniques to help me study any subject such as chunking, using metaphors and how exercise and sleep are more important than we think when learning new and difficult subjects. I especially enjoyed the different videos from renowned experts in memory retention, brain function and other related videos. I learned about the focused and diffused mode of thinking and how shifting between the two helps you to think better, be more creative and solve problems. I highly recommend this course.

Excellent introduction (or review) of the physiology, psychology and techniques of learning, studying and test taking. The course content is very accessible and surprising comprehensive.

I enjoyed the explanations of learning physiology as much as the discussion of specific learning strategies and techniques. The supplemental reading and videos are also very worthwhile.

As an educator and constant student, I got a lot from the course and will take it again. I strongly recommend this course to all students, educators and parents.

Excellent course! Helps you to build up good learning habits and understanding what learning is. Personally I was familiar with many of the learning strategies that are being represent along the course, but together with the explanations of why are thous any good, and the organised way the material is being laid it helps you "chunk it" all together , it did have a big impact on me. And it gave me a lot of motivation and already I feel that I am a better learner and more confidante. Thanks for helping me learning how to learn.

This course is very informative and useful for anyone who wants to improve their learning and understanding of human psychology. It covers topics such as the causes and consequences of procrastination, the strategies to overcome it, and the cognitive processes that underlie our decision making and behavior. The course is well-structured and engaging, with clear explanations, examples, and exercises. I learned a lot from this course and I recommend it to anyone who wants to achieve their goals more effectively and efficiently.

I wish I had this course ten years ago when I was in engineering school. I would have been a different person. But its never too late. This course not only helps with your learning but also with your overall life. to understand the core of habit, procrastination and learning is the skill that I need to take over my life and take it to the next level. thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the people who worked on this course and made it accessible for free. you are truly one of a kind. happy learning everyone.

Muhammad

I am very thankful that I enlisted in this course. It allowed me to use my time and energy towards developing an essential skill in my life as a teacher. I learned many things from this course. I'm not only talking about theories and principles but actual practical lessons I can use in my daily tasks. This course gave me a fresh look on learning and hopefully will allow me to unlearn certain habits. I'm excited to use the tips in my work and share them with students and colleagues. It's worth my time and effort - yours, too!

Fantastic. Learned so much, despite having a Masters qualification and written a book. I've found ways to improve my learning and rekindled my love of learning - am really thinking about how to apply to my creative writing, but also it's nudged me back into taking up my Tibetan and Spanish learning again. I've used Pomorodo before, as an academic on a writing retreat, enjoyed it, then forgot about it. This course has confirmed - with me testing it in practice - that it really is an effective technique.

Can't recommend enough.

Dear Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski ,

I'd like to thank you for all sharing this very well made MOOC with the world.

At the age of 35, I'm gearing up to going back to school o pursue my Master's and this course has got me excited to be studying again.

I love the depth in the topics you've covered, the simple language with which you put across complex medical terms, the humor, the encouragement, the tips, and yes, the zombies.

I will be back in some time to review this course again.

Love and Gratitude,

A STEM MOOC student from India.

I have thoroughly enjoyed the course. I wish I knew what I learned when I was a student. However, it has helped me as a research fellow to learn better. I have now infused techniques such as the pomodoro, exercise, recall, spaced-learning, repetition, and chunking in my learning. I now learn better. I am more efficient in overcoming procrastination by building new habits and focusing on the process rather than the product or the end result. I have extended this to almost every aspect of my life. I am glad I took the course.

The course shook my mind. First time ever, I thought about my problems as common problems. All the optional videos of such great personalities are insightful. I will never stop learning from Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

As a child, I had so many negative scripts that I never tried to do good. While doing the course, the tutors rewired my thinking pattern. I feel normal. I am enthusiastic to apply the knowledge. Also, I never wanted this course to end. It felt right to interact with such wonderful teachers.

This is an absolutely fantastic course in my opinion. I just realized that I have been utilizing extremely bad habits in my studying for so many years. The concepts that I found to be of great help to me are chunking, interleaving, and also the types of human memory (long-term memory, and working memory) as well as how our brains work in relation to procrastination. I highly recommend everyone who is taking the course, to make neat notes for each week, I found this advantageous in retaining much of the content. Peace & love

The course was well designed. I liked the structure of the course. Due to my procrastination problem, I enroll for the coursera courses now and then, but middle of the session I drop out from each of the course. This is the first in Coursera that retained my interest to finish the course. I loved the concept of Pomodoro, Chunking techniques that have been taught in this course. I'm looking forward to apply these techniques not only in my professional career but also in my life-long learning process. Happy learning everyone!

I'm a dyslexic and ADHD person. You can imagine how much I suffer from learning and memorizing things and I always suffer from studying and making exams and I hate going to school. This course taught me how to overcome my problem in studying and to memorize things easily It makes me more confident with myself. I found myself going thru the material easily and confidently doing the practice exams. I wish I had this course before. I'm 63 years old. Thank you for the marvelous course. I definitely will recommended to my kids

This course was a big learn and life changer. before taking this course I was unable to learn anything due to a not working pituitary. This course learned me how to be able to learn antything. Even better, this course does not only how to learn, but also how to learn very efficient. So now I'm able to follow multiple online courses at a time, thanks to this wonderfull course.

I would strongly recommend this course to everybody, especially to those that have problems with concentration or do not have much time for learning.

This was such a helpful course! It gave me tactical tools to change my perspective on learning. I'm much more confident in my study skills, and have awesome tools to combat procrastination and ineffective study habits, and build awesome new ones to help me actually hold onto the new knowledge that I'm studying to pursue a career change. Huge thank you to the instructors and Coursera for offering this for free, as well. I will definitely be reading and learning more from Barbara Oakley. 5 stars from a grateful student :)

I've always had trouble procrastinating on classwork and studying for tests. After taking this course it really gave me some powerful mental tools that I've never known about, my favorite is the Pomodoro technique and focusing on the process rather than the product. This course really has helped me with my procrastination and has actually helped me look forward towards studying. I highly recommend this course to anyone that is looking to fix their procrastination habits and looking for new effective ways to learn subjects.

Just Exceptional. The sincerity of both professors to provide us all the learning skills and techniques that helped to become who they are was done in a very skillful and comprehensive manner. I wish I would have found this course a bit earlier so that I could have used it during undergrad, and taken out all those preconceptions away about learning things that I felt would be out of my scope in general. Anyhow, better late than never as I always say. Thank you for this, and looking forward to taking more MOOCs as this one.

I highly appreciate having the opportunity of taking this course. The concepts and techniques I have learnt so far have helped me really improved in my University life as a student and in my work as an En glish teacher. I have taken so long to be able to finish it, but I have also taken my time to double check the video-lessons and take notes, so I can better understand. My purpose is to complete the whole course because I do not know what other wonderful experiences are awaiting to be discovered. Thank you very much.

I enjoyed this course very much. Professors are passionate about learning, have a genuine interest in teaching and are cool. You will have a good time taking this course. It's packed with a lot of resources with a lot of useful and interesting information but you will not feel the time pass by if you want to improve your learning skills and want to know more about the whole learning process, which is very interesting. Highly recommended for everyone! What you will learn here is useful in every field for your entire life.

Learning How to Learn is without a doubt the most pleasant, interesting, and useful online course I've taken to date. Both instructors are engaging and lively, the material is presented in straightforward and clever manners, and it achieves the balance between technical background information and practical techniques.

I would heartily recommend Learning How to Learn to anyone from high school students looking to improve their grades through to adult learners returning to education after an absence and EVERYONE in between.

I have been struggling with my studies since I got admitted into university but couldn't find out where the root of all problems is. Now, I have come to know about how my brain works and how it can be managed to do things. I wish I will be able to apply what I have learned in this course. Believe it, it was worthy of time to waste in such a course that won't help you to earn your payscale directly but it will bring a major mind-shift to believe in yourself when you will get to know where you lacked and what do you need.

I found this course for my 12-year-old daughter. She is starting to get classes that depend on tests for the grade, and she was really unclear how to study effectively. I decided to take the course also, and my 6-year-old son, who is highly motivated, participated with me. I got some key benefits from the course, particularly the pomodoro technique, which I am using. The side benefit to doing this "as a family" is that it gives us a vocabulary and common experience around which to discuss learning concepts together.

This course is fantastic. The professor in this lecture gave me a better insight into the brain's function and how to learn more effectively. I have been watching numerous videos talking about this problem. However, None of these videos is as enjoyable as this course. Spending a whole week, I learned the correct way to activate the two brain modes and interweave them efficiently. Even though it is still sometimes annoying and hard, I hope shortly, I can master this and be able to reap more fruitions in academic thrive.