By far the most knowledgeable, engaging, personable and fun course I have taken on Coursera! Had I encountered a professor in my youth as Dr. Barbara Oakley, who knows how my life would have turned out. It's never too late to learn! This course has taught me that there are various methods of learning at any age, how physical activity plays a part in keeping your mind open to new challenges.

Thank you Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for such a brilliant course.

A. Telles

I completed this course a couple of months ago, and I still bring it up regularly when talking to friends and family. I learned the importance of many concepts, even though I don't put it all into practice (I'm only human). I used the metaphor concept while studying for my genetics final though, and every time I feel like procrastinating I tell myself, "All you have to do is start!". I believe that anyone who takes this class will learn at least one new thing, and I highly recommend it!

I had been wanting to take an online course for a long time. Finally I did it and could not have been more glad that this course was the first one. For me is hard to see value in these free courses but I am very pleased with what I have learned on it. The knowledge acquired on this course can be applied right away on any desired task. It gives you a broad understanding on how our brain works in terms of learning new things. I would highly recommend this course. Health and Peace To All.

I have learned so much from this course. Many details that I was not giving much attention to, now I am taking them into consideration. I have learned about memory and it's ways of working. I found out how to properly learn, how not to waste time. I will use as much as I can from this course in my daily life and I really think everyone can benefit from it. It changes your perspective about the process of learning. And, last but not least, it is very interesting and fun at the same time.

A very usefull and easy-going class to improve your overall learning skills. I must admit that being a person that speaks English not as a mother tongue at first had some problems with understanding, but with the help of subtitles it was quiet easy. I am sure that in future using tips, notions and exercises that i dealt with in this class i can really improve my approach in new subjects no matter what they will be. It suits everyone. Great thanks for people who do such incredible job.

Before doing this course I knew some of the techniques that are mentioned in this course videos but I didn't know the name of the techniques also didn't utilize those techniques on me properly. After finishing I am feeling relaxed and now I can think more clearly about all the techniques I have learned and feel confident. At last, I want to thank Madam Dr. Barbara Oakley, she is a great teacher as well as a humble person who did a lot of hard works to make the course easy to understand.

Amazing course! Some statements I knew from time-management (such as making a task list or Pomodoro technique), but now I understand them 'cause in this course these statements were explained through science. And it's very interesting to learn how our brain works.

Also I was very inspired by all people from interviews, it's a very good option in this course.

Great thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for this couse and for making me believe in my strength and potential!

This is an amazing course! I highly recommend it to everyone because it can make your studying process easier and your life better. There are many good tips and techniques that you can learn from it. You will be able to understand your mind better and apply useful tools like the Pomodoro technique to combat procrastination or create a "to-do list" before going to sleep. It's an opportunity to discover a new world for yourself. Moreover, you will be able to study without pain! Enjoy it!

This was an excellent course. Each video is short, rarely going beyond 10 minutes, with clear, easy to understand explanations on how the brain works, tips on effective ways to study, as well as ineffective study habits to avoid. There are quizzes to help in retaining and understanding the material, and optional reading and interviews that give further tips beyond the core content. I will be using what I've learned here extensively, and would recommend this course to anyone interested.

An amazing course. I wasn't expecting much when I enrolled a few weeks ago but the more I studied and watched the lessons I was surprised with so many great tips and resources to understand and become a better learner. I found it funny that there were some techniques that I already use but have never thought on them. I reccomend this course to anyone, either in high school or college, or even as preparation for other courses in Coursera. Why don't they teach this in elementary schools?

This is not a casual course to accomplish rather a boon for those who have a false image for themselves that they cannot be improved. In all my honesty , this course in really a must do for all who want to make themselves better and also for those who want to make themselves the best.

At last , I would truly thanks the whole Coursera community for introducing such courses for us and a big thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for being such nice and great instructors.

This course has been awesome. Since starting this course, i see the practical application in all most every life situation. For example, when i feel overwhelmed by a task, i have learned to take time out from the task at hand and do something totally unrelated then go back the task later, and yes, it does seem to magically appear more doable. i will also break the task up into smaller tasks and that works well.

This course is great for everyday life!!!! Thank you, Thank you Thank you

It's a really interesting and never thought about kind of learning that I received from this course. In fact i started using the learnings to even continue and complete this course, which I thought would be left in mid way. This is really effective and i would definitely recommend this over spending 20 hours on any netflix best rated series.. its not because Netflix isn't good, but this course is better and its needed for you to stay in the game.. the game of Life.. Happy learning...

After taking this class, I realized I wasted my whole life in learning new skills and left out many skills behind believing that I can not learn or I do not have that particular gene or something to learn those new skills.

Now, after taking this course, I am feeling like- make a list that I ever wanted to learn and start it - And I am pretty much confident now that I will excel. I am more confident than ever.

Thanks to Coursera and Barbara for removing those bad zombies out of my mind.

very helpful to me. It seems I learned for a long time with bad learing habits which did make me hard to reach the targets. I didn't realise that the bad habits and concepts really make my learning ineffective everyday until I took this course. And the skills introduced and experence sharing in the insteresting interviews not only help me how to learn effectively but also let me wanna pick up more subjects which I once gave up. Yes, wanna try the learning skills in the new challenges.

The course was very well structured. It was very good for explaining the science behind the various techniques and learning challenges. This allows for a better understanding and context of the reason for the technique working or the origin of the challenge.

The topics were very engaging and digestible.

I would recommend this as a compulsory first step for anyone who intends to pursue any type of educational course as a foundational tool to enrich and get a better return on learning.

This course helps me understand how brain deals with memory, learning, and procastination.I have realised the methods I was using all these years are not effective enough and too passive. It gives me lots of new ideas how I should adjust my way of learning German and how to make the new knowledge store better. The pomodoro technique, switching between the focused and tight mode and the free and loose mode, is definitely useful for my job which involves lots of writing and creativity.

Great course, helps a lot to develop learning practice. even though I do not have put them all into practice anymore can see my mind accepting with good idea. Many thanks to Barbara Oakley and all of you who help me with this course, from the Good Doctors to the production and editing of videos in Portuguese that helped me a lot to complete the course. And the vision of being a free course with this helping many people around the World, Again Thank you very much and God bless you all

It gave me a lot of new information about learning and not only. Information about procrastination and pomidorro technique was surprisingly interesting for me. Becase as a big procrastinator I thought that İ was born this way and cannot change anything.

It is interesting to test the technique "start hard jump easy", because I always tried to finish easy task first in order to feel myself self confident and to finish as much item as possible quickly leaving lot of time for hard tasks.

my first course, and I could say this course is so memorable. I first started this course in 2022 as time goes I kind of forget to continue this course cause you know, life's happens :). But now i got my time and quickly go through all of the materials and finish this course. Its been a great time. To know how the brain works when you learn and very practical tips on how to get advantages from that. This course has lifted up my spirit to be a life-long learner. Thank you very much.

Learning how to learn should be a mandatory subject at school and continue throughout college and/or personal life. It's instrumental to understand how our brain works, the strategies to take advantage of its fantastic capabilities and also be aware of its limitations. All these concepts are explained in a clear and succinct way in the course. They are now part of my life toolbox. Totally recommended!

Thanks to Barbara, Terrence and all the Coursera team that made this possible

This Learning how to Learning is strongly recommended for any type of people who still breathing and looking for improve anything in their life, general speaking , every one of us. It will help you understand how your brain work, how to learn the effective way, how to do tests/exam and get with maximum result. All of the materials are backed and support by research of neuroscience. Both instructor are best of these neuroscience field. And lasting you will have some laugh. Have fun^^

i cannot find words to express my gratitude for this course. as a millennial, sometimes i forget how lucky i am to live in a time where educational content like this can be so easily accessible, not to mention, free of charge. Thank you Barbara and team for making this possible. As a working professional, i feel very empowered to use the knowledge i learned in this course to better my expertise and learn to enjoy the learning process of anything that i come across in the future.

I think this is one of the best courses anybody could take. It is truly helpful to learn effectively and efficiently, and ever since I have taken this course (and read the book before taking the course), my learning capability has been skyrocketed.

I think every student should take this course. This would help tremendously in the studies/learning progress, as no matter how hard you work, if you work the wrong way then it is a waste of time and effort(and you get minimal result).

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