I wish this class was available when I was in high school many years ago. I had no confidence in my intellectual abilities. Teaching in the 60s and 70s was so 'cookie cutter' - the expectation was that everyone learned the same way. As an adult learner I realized that it took me a bit longer to take in the information and practiced many of the techniques taught through this class. I like the way both

If someone studied a lot during school and university, they might figure out a few of the techniques presented in this course. Instead of years, with a few days of extra study, you'll learn all the essential and useful tips and tricks to make your study session a lot more efficient and enjoyable.

In my opinion, this should be taught at least in every university and high school for first-year students.

What a shame this course is already over. I absolutely enjoyed it and will miss Barb and Terry with their kind and comforting voice to talk to me during the lonely Covid-19 lockdown period. I strongly recommend this course for any MOOC newbie like me. It is so interesting and lots of fun. I feel well prepared having useful tools on hand to conquer the Coursera world now and absolve many more courses.

I am very grateful and thankful to everyone involved in making this course available and in such a high quality and in such a pleasant way to learn. I absolutely loved this course and I learned a lot. It definitely opens a new chapter in my learning journey. Im gonna miss Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence S., they were very professional and amazing teachers!!!

Thank you!

My very Best,

Juliana Bacellar

This was the best online course I have taken (not one of the best, but the best). It teaches you skills that you can transfer on to future learning in any area, and offers practical tips on how to tackle procrastination, improve your own learning abilities and more. I am so grateful to coursera and the creators of the course. This was such a fun learning experience and makes me excited to learn more!

I urge all those who need to learn because they have to, or because they love it, to enrol in this course this very instant. There's nothing like knowing how your brain works when you're learning. This is actually the first MOOC everybody should study before enrolling in any other course. Thanks to Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski for offering it, and Coursera to launch it. And happy learning to you all!

This is a fantastic course. Probably the best course I've taken on Coursera and other platforms for that matter. What makes it great is that it's really well paced, there's not an abundance of overwhelming information and the fact that it uses some of the techniques recommended in the course, like spaced repetition where some concepts are repeated several times during the course. Truly amazing stuff.

Great insights backed by science on how to reduce procrastination, optimize memory, and ultimately become a better learner. I really appreciated how the course broke the material down into small, manageable chunks and that there were short quizzes to check my understanding. Even if you are already a student who excels in their classes, I believe there are some great insights in this course for you!

I enjoyed the pace and style of this course with useful quizzes and resources along the way. I was glad to get analogies to help my understanding as well as to know the strategies were backed up by real studies. Sometimes the sound is off or the video doesn't seem to be color balanced, but maybe it is because the course is older? All the material is applicable though, so don't let it throw you off.

Thanks to this course I learned a little valuable data about how our brain works, and a lot of how to apply that knowledge to my study sessions in order to become a more effective learner and have fun at the same time! I really admire the job that the instructors have made here, and I'll always be grateful with them for the awesome and useful information that they provided... for free! Magnificent.

Learning How to Learn with Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejnowski is an interesting course and is valuable to complete. I learned a lot of practical knowledge that will help me to learn more effectively going forward. The class is structured at a nice pace covering technical research findings as well as related, practical, day-to-day examples and analogies. Highly recommend and thanks Barb and Terry!

This is my first online course, and I have a feeling that it was chosen right. Before rushing to studying something else it is quite important to learn on how to learn and this course is exceeded my expectation in answering this question. I am extremely grateful to the course founders and recommended to anybody who is about to start learning anything starting from languages and up to rocket science!

I appreciate you time and effort to make this course available. Before this course, I thought I was developing the right method for learning, but I was having several mistakes. This course has helped me to understand how the learning process works and how I can sharpen my study technique. I used to think that reading 15 books a year was a good record for me, but I was wasting my time fooling myself.

Insightful, actionable, straightforward, easy-to-digest information, skills, and tips to help you become a better learner. Course material is applicable to nearly every aspect of everyday life - from fighting procrastination and creating better habits, to understanding the way attention, memory, and the brain work, Barbara and Terry present everything in a matter-of-fact, fun manner. Well worth it!!

Engaging, valuable, and insightful. Don't be dissuaded by the simplicity of how it's taught, the techniques and scientific understanding beneath them, are highly beneficial in such a practical way. It was delightful to learn from both Prof. Barbara Oakley and Prof. Terrence Sejnowski. They're warm-hearted teachers and genuinely interested in developing your quality of learning, and ultimately life.

It is a wonderful course, I recommend it to anyone who wants to learn how to learn something new, or even acquiring new techniques to assist him in his or her current studies.

Many thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley, a great professor who has the academic ability to convey information smoothly in an easy understandable way.

Many thanks to Dr. Terrence Sejnowski, whom I gained new scientific knowledge from.

Wish I had discovered a course like this much earlier in my academic career. I'm an adult educator and feel this course has MUST know elements for all students! I would especially like to see my more challenged students take it; I think they would be surprised how following even a few of the outlined techniques would enhance their success and satisfaction with their learning experiences. Well done!!

Thanks so much for this course. It helps me understand the learning ability of persons can improve, not depend on there IQ by interesting sience proof. It also showed me learning techniques that are simple than I though but I didn't know before. These techniques not only help us in learning, but working. With them and highly preserverance, I trust we can break any bariers in learning something new.

One of the best courses I have taken so far, the seamless nature of each module and thinking a situtation from a new perspective was the key learning features of this course. Once you implement all the learnings from this course, it is way easier to learn and grasp concepts of any field of your choice, great instructor Prof. Oakley. The exam tips section would be a real help. Thanks for the course.

This is a course that not only teaches you tools to study better but also to keep yourself motivated throughout your learning journey. When you get stuck in the middle or even in the beginning it becomes insistently difficult to carry on. With the help of this course one can really understand how not to give up and keep going on. I think that would be the greatest take away for me from this course.

I already know most of the stuff here like Pomodoro technique, group meaning or Memory Palace, because I was already using them. However I was very interested in the neurological aspects of learning. Due to the fact that I l know most of the stuff here, it just took me 1 week to finish the whole course. I recommend to anyone who wants to be a better, more efficient learner. It can change your life.

Amazing! I'd be so much further if schools would require this course early on in education. Incourperating lessons from this course in early education or even as a whole would be benificial in standardized testing and students progression in overall learning. I loved this course now I'm looking foward to learning so much more. Thank you and everyone who made this course available to people like me.

I just don't understand why this is not teached in school.

Some of this you might have figured out but this course will enable you to plan in a systematic way how you study and remember what you study. Very insightful on the study proccess. I am glad this is the first course I took on Coursera, it will help me so much with the other courses I intend to attend.

Thanks again for providing this course!

That was my first online course and i have really enjoyed so much and gained a lot of precious ideas and concepts about different aspects of learning, My professor has shared it with my classmates and me, and i knew it won't be such a waste of time, I want to thank so much everyone who has contributed by any kind of help to create this course, especially Dr Barbara Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski.

I loved the course "Learning How to Learn: Powerful Mental Tools to Help You Master Tough Subjects". It was very engaging and informative, and it taught me some useful strategies to improve my learning skills. The instructors were clear and friendly, and the quizzes and assignments were challenging but fun. I highly recommend this course to anyone who wants to learn how to learn better and faster.