Great course on learning. In here, you will learn about how the brain works and with that knowledge, you'll learn to make the most efficient use of it. The instructors are good and the videos have a lot of visual aids to help. This is one of the first online courses I took and I believe I learned as much as if I was in a classroom with the instructors.

It has been a long time since doing any sort of online learning/ training and this was the perfect start back into it. Barbara and Terrence perfectly breakdown segments of information and make the learning process seem more understandable and manageable. I can't wait to take the skills I have learned in this course to make the most out of the next one!

This course was eye opening in terms of giving more new tools to utilize as I finish my last semester and take this new found knowledge into my daily job. Some of the techniques I had already learned on my own but most of them were very new to me! I definitely think this is a worth while course, if you have the time please I insist you try and take it!

A lot of people mention that they don't remember the things in high school due to the fact that they just purely relied on memorization. This course is essential to learning information to prepare you for future courses and life tasks. Stop relying on memorization and start recalling the information and putting your knowledge through quizzes and tests.

The class was well paced well and interesting. I developed skills that I wish I had learned in high school :-). I gained great insight into how we learn and was able to apply what I learned everyday. I found myself constantly sharing the information and tips I learned with family and friends and really getting excited while talking about the course.

Hello, I met here some extraordinary people. The course was very exciting, intriguing and remarcable concise. As a lecturer (with a degree in Civil Engineering) I found this course very useful for my futures lessons, the way of learning that is taught here is fitting like a glove. I feel that I have improved my way of thinking and I thank you for that.

I learned many new techniques on how to effectively learn new things, the Pomodoro technique, recall practice, using metaphor and analogies, team learning, and many others. These can also be used to retain and better understand already learned material. I would highly recommend this course to anyone and will be sharing it with my family and friends.

One of the best courses on the internet. They should teach a simplified version of this from grade 1. If we somehow manage to include the topics mentioned in this course for kids, I truly believe we will be able to change the lives of everyone on the planet. If we are lucky we will also be able to save the planet before we reach the point of no return.

Oakley (with support from other researchers) provides some handy study tools in this healthy guide to good study habits. The lectures are accessible to any learning level---middle-schoolers to graduate students. The lectures and quizzes reinforce material from her book. Highly recommended for everybody who wants to get the most out of their study time.

I wish I had this course before I started college. I'm pretty sure at one point or another I did everything exactly opposite of what this course teaches. I often crammed, did not study effectively, and definitely fooled myself on multiple occasions of thinking I understood material.

Everyone who is serious about learning better should take this course.

This course has taught me the key points and methods to improve the learning processes more effectively and efficiency. There are plenty of helpful hits, skills and strategies for gaining better performance in the my study processes. Now I have more understanding the factors of successfully learning and being more concentrate in new things learning.

Excellent ... my knowledge on this topic has grown significantly, it has a logical thread, and have done significant work to make it fun ...

Excelente...mi conocimiento sobre este tema ha crecido de forma importante, tiene un hilo conductor lógico, y han hecho un trabajo importante en hacerlo divertido...

gracias totales!!

Fabian Molina from ECUADOR

Exceptional course. The knowledge you will gain from this course will serve you for your entire life. Honestly I wish I had known about this course sooner in my life. Definitely recommend to anyone from any background and at any age. I guarantee you will learn something that will be incredibly beneficial to you if you ever have to learn something new.

this course helped me to better understand the basic tools i need to learn and how to better myself through learning.Barbara is one of the best teachers i had and her life story just motivated me to try and learn new aspects or subjects that i didn't think or wasn't confident enough that i can learn or even understand (besides engineering).Thank a lot

It is a great course! I am learning this at the age of 54. I wish I would have got this course or the teachers when I was in school or college. no doubt this course is backed by scientific research in this area. thank you Coursera team for bringing out this course. Thank you, Prof. DR. BARBARA OAKLEY & DR. TERRENCE SEJNOWSKI for inspiring teaching.

I want to recommend this course because my experience was gratifying. I have learning problems such as dyslexia and Disorder Attention Disorder, for this reason, it is very important for me to learn a correct and adequate way of studying. I am very satisfied with what I learned in this course and I am sure that it will be something useful all my life.

An eye-opening course that gives you the confidence to approach learning on almost anything. Even if many ideas presented in this course are intuitive, for example using recall to make sure information is persisted in your memory, you will gain more self-awareness in the process of studying/working and you can start applying the knowledge to yourself.

I guess I didn't want it to end because I kept extending the deadline. I wanted it to keep going and giving things to think about and learn. I am still processing everything, but I see myself using this information for myself and in my somewhat new career as an ESL teacher. Many thanks for everyone that made this course happen and made it so coooool!

Excellent overview, great simple, relaxing presentation and important content. I would love a class that focused more on the neuroscience and hard biology of the topic of effective learning and retention. A video concentrating on tactics for unlearning incorrectly learned facts and habits and reducing Einstellung will improve the course in my opinion.

Wow this course has seriously helped me open my mind on how I learn things. So many true things in this course that I experienced and now know why. I'm pumped for my future. I want to learn everything even things outside my possible career choices. With these tools I can truly break the barriers of learning. Break old habits and teach myself new ones.

I love this course. When I am starting to struggle in a class and cannot figure out what I am doing wrong I always come back to this course to review. Barbara Oakley you are an amazing person and you encouraged me to give collage another try despite my learning disabilities.

Thank you, and thank you to everyone else who make this course possible.

Troy

This is a very useful course in understanding the learning process.

You get to learn about the what happens inside your brain when we try to learn a new thing, how it is moved into your long term memory.

I found the simple tools and techniques like pomodoro, testing breaks very useful.

Thanks a lot! ..... to the UC team for making this course available.

I'm just one week away of finishing this course, but I can already tell that is been the most effective learning course I ever take. The technique I already learn have been of so much help in the resent days of my life. even if it work or studies or simple life, everything you'll learn in this course will help you to improve your skills and abilities.

At first, I found this course boring 2 modules in, but as I began to digest the material and apply what was being said, I found that I was able to engage better with the material. Plus, it helped to (do as it said) and apply it to the world around me or to someone I know to gain a better understanding, using metaphors and stories worked best for me.