One of the best ways I've spent my time. So easily explained, short concise and to the point, so well done. I just wish they had taught me this at school! I also absolutely love both the teachers, Barbara is just adorable and so funny. I recommend it to almost everyone I know, no matter what they do in life. They even have subtitles for those non-English speakers!

Barbara Oakley has such a lovely personality! I'm thoroughly enjoying this course. I never thought that my learning difficulties were all related to the way I've been studying. Simple adjustments learnt in this course here and there and boom, finally tackling hard subjects confidently, and more importantly retaining it! I can't recommend this course highly enough.

Empoderador. En este curso encontrarás un manual para el uso correcto de tu propia mente, que te permitirá aprender de manera más efectiva y satisfactoria. Para mí personalmente ha representado una verdadera revolución cognitiva y un grato redescubrimiento del poder ilimitado que tiene una mente humana para desarrollarse, cuando se aplica correctamente al estudio.

This is one of the best courses in Coursera. This changes the way you study about a subject regardless of the field that you want to specialise in. Education psychology is one of the key things that helps you teach children how to learn. I believe if you know how to learn, you can learn anything!. Must take.. I am taking this for the second time in the same year.

In my introduction on the Discussion Forums I mentioned that for the last 4-5 years I have had problems retaining what I have been trying to learn and even came to the point where I thought I just simply couldn't learn anymore. Now, I have been equipped with the tips and techniques to learn anything that I put my mind to. I could not recommend this course enough.

It's so grateful that you guys present such an amazing course to the public. I'm an undergraduate student from China, and never learned how to learn in my past 21 years. It's a beautiful journey, or in your words 'the process', which takes me to the science field of understanding the structure and functionality of the human brain. Thank you guys, Have a nice day.

I've always loved to learn, but it feels like this course has provided "scaffolding" to make the process more exciting and efficient. I've already started putting the ideas into practice in my own life, and I'm looking forward to sharing them with my kids and with anyone else who may find them beneficial. Thank you SO much for this wonderful learning experience.

It was great. I got to learn so many things and tips that will help me improve in the future. I know from now on it all depends on me to put everything Barbara Oakley and Terrence Sejknowski taught us into practice, but without the effort they put on teaching all of these tools to other people, I wouldn't know where to start.

Truthfully, many grateful thanks. :)

I was very happy to note some practices that I was doing unconsciuosly were actually recommended in the course (e.g. switching to diffuse thinking) but I also learned a lot of new stuff which I feel that will help me a lot in my career. I was literally thinking during the course "I don't see a reason for anyone to NOT take this course". I will help in any career.

One of the best courses on L&D that I have done. The materials were lucid, the videos were way within 6 to 8 minutes of duration which minimized cognitive load and made the learning process easy. I loved the assignments that were given, especially the second one which helped me cement the concepts pretty well. Kudos and my heartfelt gratitude to the facilitators!

Thanks a lot to Barb and Terry for creating this beautiful course! The topics' explanation, supported by good examples and meaningful images, was easy to understand. For me it was really an easy walk through the course. After completing the course, one gets a good idea of how learning happens in one's brain and what can one do to increase one's learning capacity.

The material is interesting, It has short videos that target the learning objective that are also very useful. It's a great course. I learned a lot! I am very thankful to the Drs. who took the time to prepare this and Coursera to offer this course. I highly recommend it if you want to learn new techniques to help you in remembering and learning anything you want.

Barbara and Terrence,

Thank you so much for delivering an excellent course. I was having difficulty in retaining material I had studied. I mentioned my problem to a good friend and he suggested 'Learning How To Learn.' I now have invaluable techniques for life. I thoroughly enjoyed the course and I have recommended it to some friends.

Kindest regards,

Richard Mongey

This course was quite insightful and well-balanced. I think the best indication of its good quality is that you can see some of the concepts they are presenting in this course being incorporated in it, which brings you one step closer to using those in your life because you've tried them and you know they're really working. Thanks for all the wonderful materials!

IT IS REALLY USEFUL COURSE FOR THE TEACHERS AND INSTRUCTORS. IT IS ALSO A GOOD PLATFORM FOR THE LISTENING STUDENTS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ISSUING THE CERTIFICATE FOR THIS COURSE. I HAVE COMPLETED THE 'SPEAK ENGLISH PROFESSIONALLY: IN PERSON, ONLINE & ON THE PHONE'. AND I HAVE APPLIED THE FINANCIAL AID APPLICATION ALSO. SO KINDLY ISSUE ME THE CERTIFICATE PLEASE.

Useful and well presented.

Well presented: The teachers of this course clearly have taken a lot of time to lay out and present the material in a clear and accessible way. Thanks!!

Useful: should've learned this stuff 30 years ago. It'd have made my learning process much more efficient and effective. Ah well - at least I can use it in the upcoming 50 years still :-)

An absolutely brilliant course. I recommend it to anyone that's ever been interested in understanding how to learn things. Examples, tools and techniques in the course are applicable in real life and something you might find yourself using more than you thought you would. I definitely learned a lot from this course and so would you if you took it. Happy learning!

I applied it to my work, the principles really worked for me, key topics that I've learned: pomodoro technique, how to use focused mode when studying, train your brain to fight procrastination, focus on the process, not on the product and most importantly don't fool yourself. I want to thank all the professors and professional that made this life-changing course.

A course that all students should take to gain or remind themselves of important learning and retention techniques. Too often, I find myself and others studying for an objective (like grade) rather than actually learning the material. The only critique I have is that the course feels a bit old fashioned. A more modern remake would improve it but is not necessary.

espectacular conocer todas las funciones del cerebro en cuanto a la forma de aprender y aprender a utilizarlo, la técnica del pomodora es muy simple pero efectiva, la mente difusa no sabia que era tan poderosa y la estoy usando mucho, tome muchas notas y las voy a releer para aprender cada vez mas y se las voy a enseñar a mi hija, gracias por tan excelente curso.

I was very impressed with the content of this course. Not only was the information within your course/ frequent mini tests great but the optional videos featuring greats from around the world were enlightening. Thank you! From this day forward I will look at learning completely different. I appreciate you giving me the tools to help me become more successful.

This course is distinguished and much helpful for me to keep control my self and conquer the procrastination in learning difficult courses or tasks. The teachers give us both nearest neural research results and fruitful, easy-understanding examples. Moreover, retrieval quiz after every week study makes me focus on the keynotes. Thanks for keep me in perspective!

This class was extremely helpful with teaching some of the most basic learning skills we never learned growing up. We've all been put in school and told to go learn but we were never taught how to learn! Thanks to both the professors avid input and tips on tackling tough material, I now feel much more confident heading into any type of course of program of study.

With each new week I am consistently impressed with the content, thoroughness and thoughtfulness behind each lecture video, additional material and quiz.

This is invaluable, and easily applicable material that I wish I had learnt when I was a college freshman.. Better late than never I suppose. Thank You Barbara and co for putting this excellent course together.

THIS WAS A VERY ENLIGHTENING AND INTERESTING AND ENGROSSING COURSE.IT HELPED UNLEARN MANY ASPECTS OF HOW INEFFICIENTLY WE HAVE APPLIED OUR LEARNING FOR YEARS. THANKYOU PROFESSOR BARBARA OAKLEY AND DR TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI FOR THE BEAUTIFUL WAY THAT YOU HAVE COVERED ALL THE ASPECTS OF THE LEARNING!! THANKYOU TOO FOR ALL MY TEAMMATES WHO HELPED REVIEW MY ASSIGNMENTS.