This course helps me a lot in tackling procrastination and make me realized what I've done wrong in my study. The course gives a proper amount of scientific reasons about the brain to support human behaviours and how to deal with them. Every tips and technique taught in the course were also performed and used by course instructors along the way of teaching, and I found those techniques help me a lot in understanding and memorizing the content :)

Thank you!

Absolutely wonderful and must-have course for everyone. It provides you the opportunity to learn how to learn directly from leaders in the field. The explanation provide about how memory works are very easy to understand. The techniques explained are simple, easy and come with explanations about why and how they work. Therefore everything makes a lot of sense, is very clear and to the point. All the lessons can be put to use right after finishing a lesson.

This is a very useful course for everyone who wants to learn more effectively, understand complex concepts with less effort, retain information more deeply, and master subjects that even look frightening at first.

No matter if you are studying languages, physics, or programming, you will definitely find some simple and smart techniques for your everyday use.

I have just completed the course and I will definitely recommend it to my friends and colleagues.

A very insightful and uplifting course. Thanks to it, I collected several useful to tips to increase the efficiency of my learning sessions (e.g. the Pomodoro technique, giving the priority to self-testing instead of re-reading the study material). And I learned several interesting information about great pioneers in neuroscience such as Ramon y Cajal. I am grateful to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for their commitment in this free course.

Thank you to everyone involved in making this course happening. The information offered is vital to understanding how we learn. In my opinion I have learned and finally understood important concepts of learning that I should have learned earlier in my life. I am very thankful for being one of the participants in this class and would suggest it to anyone! Sad that this is not taught in school before we venture out into the world to become a grown up person.

I have issues regarding procrastination which prevented me from completing any task on time and many times I wasted so much time on planning rather than taking action. This course is really helpful for me as it explains how our brain and memory work, how to overcome procrastination, and how to solve any problems. I'm grateful to Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski for their valuable lessons and for making this life-changing course. Thanks a lot.

for many years, I've tried different methods to change the way that I was working and studying, U enrolled this course, I wasn't sure that I'm going to learn something new, after the first week I said woow, I think this is going to work, and it did, it does, it's going to work more, I've learned a lot, this is changed my hole way of learning, getting understanding ourselves, the way that we work, it's the most important step

thank you so much, appreciated

I've been learning the whole my life. The whole my life I've been learning in a wrong way, because for some reason or another they don't consider it's worth teaching pupils and students how to learn, which is the first thing I suppose is to be learnt at any education institution. Thank you very much for this course. You have encouraged me to deliver this information to my students. I want to continue working on this topic more deeply at my Master Program.

Barb is an awesome instructor. this course is fun, engaging, and very thorough. i do wish they would get into more technical terms for all of the content. they go into details about dopamine and serotonin but then just simply refer to amyloid beta as "metabolic poison". the silly metaphors and illustrations really strengthen the concepts being taught. everything concidered, 5/5 this course is great for anybody trying to power up their learning abilities.

One of the best courses I have come across on Coursera. What makes this course so great is that Prof Barbara Oakley talks about very simple concepts which most of us "know", yet shows how it is so obvious that we don't really practice them in our lives. What better motivation to finally practice some of these known tips and tools of Neuroscience than to understand WHY - why we do (or don't do) what we do (or don't do), and what can we do to Learn better.

This course broke down 'learning how to learn' into manageable chunks which enabled me to absorb the information easily. It also made me feel more relaxed about taking on challenging subjects and has helped me to reduce barriers to getting started. Barbara Oakley's simple and accessible teaching style made the course enjoyable. I would recommend this course to anyone looking to change bad habits and acquire the right learning skills to better themselves.

This is a great course to help anyone interested in learning. I now understand how to better spend my time studying and that you can learn even those things you don't think your good at. Wonderful help with procrastination and test taking. Not too hard to understand the material and it only takes a bit of work to complete the work and do well on the tests. Anyone can take this course and benefit from it. Highly recommend taking it, well worth your time.

Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski present the material in a fun, engaging way for a general audience. I highly recommend anyone take this course for the multitude of techniques explained to aid learning and address issues like procrastination and your mindset if you lack self-confidence to learn. While the material is focused more toward study and school, there is plenty of benefit for professionals and others looking to continue to learn outside of school.

J'ai adoré. Cela m'a permis d'avoir une très belle base et ça me donne envie d'explorer plus en profondeur le sujet. En outre, je trouve que Barbara Oakley a une très belle bienveillance qu'elle réussit à transmettre. Merci !

I loved it. This course allowed me to get a real good grip on learning and gives me a strong desire to explore more deeply the subject. Also I find that Barbara Oakley has beautiful kindness that shows beautifully onscreen.

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The course has equipped me with crucial knowledge that I can apply to my daily life, especially in terms of learning. It has helped me to better understand myself and how the brain works. After gaining all the information in the course, I have become more aware of my actions and more considerate in my approach to learning. Additionally, the lecturers in the course clearly and concisely explain everything in detail, making it easier for me to understand.

Wonderful course and the concept. Beautiful way of explanation by Dr. Baraba Oakley on the various ideologies of mind and the approach of identifying the blocks and how to eliminate them along with the live interviews of great achievers is really helpful. The scientific explanation of Neuro Science and its effect on the learning and Brain functionality by Dr. Terrence Sejnowski is excellent. A very good course giving a broad concept of New Ways to Learn

I would like to say Barbara Oakley has some of the best teaching skills ever. The dog course instructor was also extremely skilled at teaching me about intelligence when it comes to dogs and humans and other types of apes. But my friend ደ asked me to take this course as well, and it was also pretty fun. The quizzes took some time for me to actually try to pass, but like the instructors said, mistakes are crucial when it comes to learning! Thanks again ደ

This is a must-take course. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski have put together a really great course backed with interviews and scientific papers that demonstrate there is a better way to learn that what most of us intuitively gravitate towards. I am very glad I completed this course and it has already helped me perform better in many areas of my life and be a more effective learner. I cannot recommend this enough for anyone wanting to level up

The course is intelligently designed, well delivered and addresses many common problems all of us face in learning. The techniques I have learnt here have helped me tremendously in navigating my mindset and habit in a more exciting and effective way. Most of all, I have stopped perceiving that I'm just not naturally talented. Instead I know that I can learn anything with the right mindset and techniques. I'm sure no one would regret taking this course.

This course has amazing tips on how to improve learning, how to overcome procrastination, and how to better understand how the brain works in the process of learning. The professors are so calm and make the presentations so beautifully that make it easier to understand all the concepts. I would like to thank the professors for making this course available and for bring specialists (optional videos) that showed examples of the themes. It was incredible!!

Before starting any course or learning anything everyone should consider this course first.

This course provides some really simple but powerful technique's like the Pomodoro technique, chunking, etc. which can make a noticeable difference in your learning and career too.

I would also like to appreciate Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski to be our mentor in this course. There hard work and dedication will benefit many others taking this course.

The course was exceptional and fun! Dr. Barbara Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski are excellent professors. The course was well thought out and the interactive quizzes provided an excellent way to learn. Why aren't all universities offering online courses applying this study method to learning? I also wanted to mention the guest interviews were fascinating. I learned so much from all of them. Thank you so much Dr. Oakley and Dr. Terrence Sejnowski.

Schools should teach students how to learn, instead they teach students how to get stressed and fail, then they teach them blame culture. If anyone does well in the pre-university education system in a western country it's usually as much due to accident as design. This course undoes many of the misconceptions that western education systems drill into student's heads. This course will teach you the skills to effectively learn with joy instead of stress.

See "A Posting about Anxiety, Depression and PTSD from a Learner in Learning How to Learn" as my thoughts have been posted previously by a learner. It is comforting to know we share the same experience and I now have the tools to combat decades of procrastination. There were many simple tools given but as stated in the video, the learning environment in academia is based on product not process. I only wish I would have learned this in elementary school.

This course is absolutely amazing, I would even say life-changing. Not only it helps to understand the basics of the brain's nature in terms of learning, but it also helps to embrace yourself, and what's the most important -- to believe in yourself. This is exactly what I so desperately needed in this period of my life.

Thank you so much, Dr. Oakley and Dr. Sejnowski. You've done an amazing job creating this course and sharing so many valuable insights.