Lot's of new ideas and techniques for enhancing retention and memory formation. I enjoyed the test-taking and reviews this course provided. They allowed for good recall and were difficult to complete if I tried to skip-ahead. The course could improve on organizing the material in a better manner. Topics were brought up multiple times across the module , gradually building our understanding; however, in notetaking this was a pain.

As a Masters educated, continuous learner who reads ~20 non-fiction books a year... I took a lot away from this course.

The knowledge, strategies, and techniques described helped me better understand past coursework (and the reason behind it's structure) much more clearly. This course actually has me looking forward to "homework" as a component of the pursuit of mastery, something that has never been the case for me in the past.

This course provides the research and evidence based various psychological aspects or different kinds of mental facts about effective learning or memory. You may find different memory techniques in this course such as spaced review, mental imagery, mnemonics, mind-map, peer-discussion, teaching or lecture method, etc. Anyone can use these altogether in better manner for their further studies, career, and mindful journey of life.

This has been one of the best courses I've taken in my life. The insight, knowledge, and techniques you learn about the brain and how to learn have changed the way I study and approach things and are proving to have immediate benefits in my life. I definitely would recommend this course to anyone who is studying anything, and to everyone in general as all the concepts and knowledge can pretty much be applied in all areas of life.

Dear Drs. Barbara and Terrance,

I appreciated you shared your knowledge to understand and learn about the available resources in our brain, and the different techniques to improve our skills to learn different topics.

I highly recommend to read the "A mind for numbers" book during and after this course, it is very easy to understand and it is a great supplement for the class.

Thank you so much for all your work and congratulations.

Great course to learn new study skills and understand why what you might be doing isn't helping. My first week of my math class I spent nearly 20 hours studying and now I spend only around 5 hours a week and retain more using the techniques mentioned. I still have room to improve too! (Although the amount of time probably won't drop any more, I will probably be able to retain the information better once I get flashcards down).

Best thing I've done in years! Feel really prepared and actually excited about some upcoming study. Barb is brilliant ... the regular quizzes are really helpful in cementing your understanding and the humour smattered throughout is so clever! Thanks for the confidence boost ... I have a totally different level of understanding and appreciation for what is truly possible. Seriously... this course is a game changer - thank you!!!!!

Just the perfect course I have been wanting to learn, Learning How to Learn.:) At the end of this course, I am hoping to be able to apply all what I have learned in my coming up subjects in the next semesters to come and all the days of my life. Bravo to all involved in putting up on line such straight forward easy to learn techniques on Learning How to earn all my subjects and every single thing involving Learning How to Learn.

I would recommend to individuals from all walk of life. Its so motivating, easy to comprehend and addresses our basic issues in learning tough things. It has provided with simple tips that can be used in our daily life. I am using them and results are tremendous. Above all, it has given me an insight that we can master things that we are not naturally good at. I am extremely thankful to the instructors and Coursera! Stay blessed.

I would like to commend you and the entire team for creating such a well-structured and impactful learning experience. Your dedication to fostering effective learning methods has made a significant difference in my approach to acquiring new knowledge. Thank you once again for providing this invaluable resource. I will certainly recommend this course to my peers and colleagues who are eager to enhance their learning capabilities.

This is an excellent course, and I recommend it to every student and every graduate and anyone else who doesn't mind it when they take their coat out the closet on the first cold day of the year and discover a $20 bill that they didn't know they had. That is, many will discover in this course capabilities that they had all along, but were unaware of. It is free! My advice is to dive in, get started, and see where it leads you.

Pretty good course. I got a few techniques and habits/routines out of it, which I plan to adopt. On the critical side, I usually like my material free of zombies and pinball machines, but that's me. I feel the zombie analogy is handy during the course, but falls short as you move on to more advanced understanding. Also, I would remove "easy" from the answer to 21 d (I think that was the question).

But overall, a very good course.

It was great for people like me cause when so ever I got fail in some subjects I used to think that I'm a talented person it's not my fault, I used to blame the teacher for these but after these course I'm getting to think that I'm the one who was lacking with the skills how to learn.

Everything about these course is way too great.

Thanks to the team of coursera and especially to Prof. Barb Oaklay and Prof. Terence.

Thanks A Lot.

My first course in Coursera, and i am so glad that i started with this one. Both professors are so kind, teaches so understandably. I am very happy that i completed this course, there are so much information! Also that tasks that can be done voluntarily, they waked up my competetive skills! It was extremely fun and informative, i am thankfull for that opportunity! Thank you VERY MUCH for helping people to Learn How To Learn!!!!

Despite my near-zero knowledge of English and contrary to test tasks in English, I successfully completed this course.

I learned a lot of interesting things for successful training and new skills.

Of course, on the whole, I spent about five times as much time on the course, but from about 2-3 weeks, using the advice I received, the training skills and habits I received allowed me to take tests the first time and with high scores.

It was my maiden MOOC and I am glad that I chose this course. It is one of the greatest things that I have learned in my recent days. The illustrations are lively, the examples most appropriate and an absolutely knowledgeable, creative, enthusiastic,funny and experienced instructor Barbara Oakley has made this course simply astounding and will act as a light to illuminate the path of all those for whom learning seems difficult.

This course was something I looked forward to each day this summer. Dr. Oakley's calming voice and all the research done by her and Terrance was thorough and simplified (compact). I feel that I can apply so many concepts into my job, my health (procrastination), my dreams to accomplish many more academic feats in my lifetime. Many thanks for the post-lesson cue, "I'm Babara Oakley, thanks for learning how to learn" Best, HT

Thanks a lot, Terrence Sejnowski & Barbara Oakley!!!

By your commitment I have learn a lot of how to handle learning of new things!

I am deeply grateful to you for having the patience to try to learn me all this new knowledge about how our brains works when we force it to learn new things! I will have this in my mind when it gets hard, sometimes to learn new things!

Thank you both very much!!! And it have been funny!

Kjell Karlsson

Thanks. The course "Learning how to learn" is realy helpful. I am from Venezuela, and I want to be a writer in english. I know I have some difficulties with irregular verbs and with punctuation. After this course, I started to try daily with those problems.

I am interested in "learning and motivation", And this course has good bibliography about it. I agree with Schopenhauer idea that Motives are the causes views from within us.

I feel immensely grateful to (Prof.) Dr Barbara Oakley and (Prof.) Dr Terry Sejnowski for their invaluable intellectual insights. Their remarkable contributions have not only broadened my perspective but have also enabled me to approach problems in a more critical and analytical manner. Their expertise has been an indispensable asset to my growth and development, and I am honored to have had the opportunity to learn from them.

I have learned a lot how to keep my attention when I am learning. The different ways to learn and how to make a break time during the process for after this I can get back to the learning path again. The Pomodoro Technique is a success, I would like to say that If I hadn´t the time to keep 25 minutes I wouldn´t have failed completely, no never think that, if not that you can start with less time to practice and make the habit.

This courses helped me to understand many problems in classroom . Defines properly the conceptual map of educacional problems and notify the tools to avoid them. As for me the best thing that happened is that i gave a name to the facts that made me a bad student.Now i have bigger motivation and passion too ,to help my students to avoid my mistakes. Greetings from Pyrgos Ilia -Greece ( Χαιρετισμούς από τον Πύργο Ηλείας- Ελλάδα)

When i was in college i had a really tough time finishing and passing my classes, i felt school was really not meant for me.

I wish i would've found this course years before.

Still i think material learned during this previous weeks will strongly help me for future endeavours.

It's amazing to learn all this kind of subjects based on scientific background and taught by really smart people.

Thanks you so much, Barbara and Terrance.

Many thanks to the instructors and university for making this course available. It pointed out some of the flaws and limitations in my learning methods. More importantly, it gave me a road map to improving my learning and long-term comprehension of subjects. I am already using my new developing skills to improve reading comprehension, learning newer complex materials, and being generally more efficient in work and learning.

This course was fantastic. I wish I was aware of all these hints and tips many years ago, however, glad to have been taught these now. Barbara and Terry thank you, as you have provided so many valuable tools to be able to learn more efficiently and understand those tougher concepts. You will change many peoples lives with your courses, most likely you have done so already. I look forward to your books and the following courses