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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

SN

Jan 18, 2018

Thank you Barbara. It was really enjoyable trip with you in this course. I have found many new learning techniques. Your positive behavior was very encouraging for me to begin a new list of my life!

AH

May 27, 2020

Thank you so McMaster University & the professors who carried out the course so very well. I hope the course will help me in my life taking important decisions. I learnt a lot through this course.

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By Mark v d P

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Dec 7, 2019

Mijn eerste MOOC's, kijken wat ik ermee doe en als het handig is dan leer ik bij via MOOC's

By Johne C C

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Jun 17, 2020

Great insight to practice in all aspects of life. Especially where one feels inadequate.

By Rahul M

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Jun 12, 2020

This Course is good to show a hope to those who do not understand even about themselves.

By Anthony R

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Feb 2, 2020

Interesting but the career part of the course was sparse on detail

By sujentiraan s

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May 8, 2020

Good and out of box thinking exercises with great lect

By Eugene E

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Jun 17, 2021

I didn't get my "With Honors" badge. Please help.

By Dessa G

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Apr 9, 2020

There was some good information in this course.

By Burak K

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Dec 20, 2020

quiz format is very bad due to pictures

By Handa S

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May 11, 2017

Learning how to learn, version 1.5

By Prachi S

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Sep 18, 2023

this course is only good.

By Shyam S

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Dec 17, 2017

it could be better

By Moggy

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Sep 27, 2017

good training

By Fernando A B d M J

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Jan 15, 2025

Ótimo Curso

By Shynar L

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Jul 7, 2017

nice work!

By Mustafa M

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Nov 18, 2020

very good

By Md E

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Feb 21, 2025

GOOD

By Dhirendra D

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Sep 17, 2022

Good

By Sarah B

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Apr 21, 2020

It's a lot of easy basic ideas about learning. It's not horrible advice if you're a slower learning or need advice in learning how to learn. I think this course would be great for people who need a bit of encouragement about learning. Or if they're new to MOOCs or learning in general. It's not bad information. Just be aware that if you're taking more difficult courses or have read books or are a more advanced learner, this course doesn't have much to offer.

By Shane C

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Feb 19, 2025

Some of the professor's viewpoints are extremely biased and don't represent findings in modern neuroscience. The unnecessary inclusion of gender politics really turned me off the course material and made me lose credibility in the instructor.

By Eugen D

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Jan 18, 2020

A lot less substance compared to the original course. The only usefull info in the first two parts of the course (I stopped after that) was the mention of Alex Vermeer' guide to defeat procrastination.

By B M

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Apr 21, 2020

Some valuable information, but delivery can get excruciating. Finished with honours but did not receive a certificate indicating that.

By Maryam V

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Aug 30, 2022

The course was a combinqtion of interesting topics. Howeverm it seems a bit old, and it didn't add much to my previous knowledge.

By Kawthar

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Jul 22, 2020

I enjoyed the course , maybe improvement on the quality of the material and videos . Overall interesting course.

By Faatimah M M

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Apr 5, 2020

I did not recieve my free certificate

By Maegan C

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Dec 2, 2022

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