This course helped me realize some of the methods I was using to learn were extremely helpful and employed me to continue using those methods as well as adding on some new ones I had never heard of. It also made me understand a lot of the underlying processes going on inside my brain when I am learning new things, which will hopefully empower me to learn better in the future.

Thank you for this great course. I really enjoyed it. I hope that the things I've learned in here will help me in learning new things. It was really interesting to watch and it made me realize why I may have struggled to learn throught my life because many points that are made in this course have been my problems and now I have some understanding on how to fight it. Thank you

This course has taught me very meaningful and useful things about the brain and the wrong, smart, effective and efficient ways of learning and studying. Through this, I feel motivated to study for my upcoming midterms and to continue studying and learning with the techniques I've learned. Thank you so much to the amazing professors for teaching me so well! God bless everyone!

This course was very beneficial on my current studies. It reminded me to not push myself, but to know when to take a break and sort out problems later. Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski really lightened up my understanding and I can't wait to start the next course "Mindshift". Overall, this course was very interesting to learn about. May you all have a great study session!

Very refreshing and a great course to understand how to brain works. It provides lot of techniques to improve your ability to learn and understand things which you are both interested in and even the ones which you fear and procrastinate. I will recommend this course to everyone irrespective of their backgrounds to take this course and become a better learner. Happy Learning!

Learned so much, is very much so learning the science of your brain and how to apply that science to everything in life. I believe if you actually applied all these things to your core skills and habits you could achieve an amazing level of non-stop efficiency. At very first the videos seem kind of dated and a little slow, but you quickly get into it and respect the speakers.

A very useful course! Especially together with a book Mind for Numbers!

I knew about the Pomodoro technique before, but I wasn't enthusiastic enough to use it. But after getting to know that it's better to concentrate on the process not on the product during that course, this Pomodoro technique has more sense for me now and I am more likely to use it.

Thank you for the course!

A spectacular course for anyone who is having a difficult time learning subjects that are new to them, or who is working on completing a long-term project, or just anyone who likes to learn but wants to optimize their learning habits. This class is absolutely super for all of those needs and has helped me quite a lot. Thanks so much!! :) It gets an A+ in my book, for sure! ;)

This course taught me how to learn, introduced me to a lot of other things I wanna learn about, it taught me how to teach, it taught me how to read! (I had it completely wrong!) it taught me, to some extent, how to remember. And most importantly, it taught me how to beat procrastination. I am already teaching two people these course's techniques. Thank you Dr. Barbara Oakley!

Excellent course! Really easy to understand and apply to your own studies. If you are wanting to get better grades on exams or more fully understand the material you are learning in class (or at work/in life) this course is super helpful in teaching you how to use research in neuroscience to memorise material, avoid procrastination and overall improve your learning abilities!

This course is full of great ideas on how to effectively learn and understand different subjects, its helpful in every area of life, I'm happy that I took part in this course and grateful to the people that put this materials together and also to the nice and wonderful Barbara Oakley and Terry Sejnowski that delivered this course. It will surely help me in life going forward.

I regret that I never stumbled upon this course or anything near it earlier. The materials, logical structure of the course, the amount of knowlege doses given during each video lecture, the references, the quality of interviews and interviewees and tests are all carefully prepared to maximise the learning outcome. Above all, they are presented in fun and an interesting way.

This course was amazing! I truly believe the content in this course can help so many struggling students who incorrectly think they are "not smart". Using these techniques, especially at an early age, can drastically change someone's life. I wish I knew this information when I was in school! Great teachers, amazing content. One of the best Coursera courses I have ever taken!

I really enjoyed this course and found the lessons to be invaluable. I have always been very curious and an enthusiastic learner but never approached my learning in a strategic fashion. This course has equipped me with many tools to improve the efficiency and efficacy of my learning which I have already begun to implement. Barabara Oakley is also a wonderful course director!

At this point in my life I am a professional. So much wish that I had the chance to see this when in high school or college. I've learned some of the techniques on my own through trial-and-error, and it would have saved me so much time. Will recommend the class to family and friends who are interested in self improvement. Thank you for putting together such a treasure chest!

This course was an obscenely pleasing and satisfying experience for me. The lecture videos were very helpful,in the real life. It was indeed very educational. The lecturer Dr. Oakley, i should specify on, had a specific kind of teaching method, which was very very clear and easy to learn. Overall, the whole course was an beautifully emanating experience. Thanks. To everyone.

Course was informative and well-paced. The videos were superbly recorded and points explained. It is suitable for students in school as well as adults trying to learn something new which can be quite hard at their age. A fresh perspective or insight into learning is always beneficial and this course can either surprise you or completely change the way you learn. Worth a try!

Thanks to Barbara and her colleagues for this wonderfull course! it was interesting, helpful, easy to understand and fascinating :-) i enjoyed the images and videos within the course, the tests and questions after each video were very helpful to pass the final test and practise all the techniques (such as recall, mini tests etc) which were described and suggested at course.

Thank you very much for the knowledge that you have imparted to your students through this course. If it wasn't because of my procrastination, I would have completed this earlier. And now that I did, I have learned much of how to be proactive in dealing with my new learning in all sorts of subject matter that I will be going thru from this moment on. What an awesome course!

One of the best free course I have taken so far. I Do Recall application is a great tool I have been using for almost 2 weeks now. Consistency in retrieval practice is key to effectively create chunks. Focus and Diffuse are both important in learning new concepts when studying. Relaxation is also required for us learners to avoid burn out. We are not machines, we are human.

I really enjoy learning this course thank to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

Its really a great learning experiences I hope that I can share my knowledge ive learned to this course and I am deeply thanking Coursera for this wonderful experience and also to Ma'am and Sir for the woderful learner experience I have throughout this course. More power and GodBless

I would like to take this chance to sincerely thank Dr Barbra Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski for been the most helpful instructor of my life. What I have learn in this course, I wish I had known those things 40 years ago. These two Instructors made me a new person in my search for knowledge. Thanks a million for making me discover the power of my brain. May God bless you.

It is a great course, pleasant and easy to follow. It shows us how to do what we have to do better. From the topics of how to tackle procrastination, all the knowledge about einstellung, short- and long-term memory, chunking, creating vivid analogies and metaphors, avoiding overconfidence, etc, all this knowledge has a direct impact on the adequate completion of our duties.

This is an awesome course and helped me to learn and unlearn some of the concepts about brain functioning while learning and also teaching effective techniques to learn. The study materials, course tests and videos from masters have helped to feel more confident and am sure that I can learn anything new with this methodology. Thank you Barb and Terry for this great course !

This course was sooo useful! I am starting college in the fall and thought this might help me; it definitely will. The main instructor is great; she explains things very well. If I learned one thing from this course, it is that I need to go back and forth between focused and diffuse modes of thinking. Just that one thing has helped me immeasurably since I've learned it.