As a struggling engineering student this course was very helpful. I've started putting it into practice and it's helping so far. I'll update the review once I see if there's been a change in my learning

one of the best course to understand how your brain works, having very useful techniques how you can learn tough subjects & also useful how you can increase your productivity by avoiding procrastination

Thanks very much for all the new, highly relevant information provided. I think it will be very useful in all my future plans and I will strongly recommend it among my friends, colleagues and relatives.

I should have started my learning at school just with this course. I would recommend it to any child starting his/her education as well as any other person wanting to learn something new in life.

Cheers!

SUPERWONDERFUL COURSE. Definitely a must for people who worry about their bad memory, for teaches and students, and for common folks who want to improve their memory while learning a lot about our brain

I've found this course very helpful, useful and well done. A nice strong foundation to my new learning career. In the future I would like to retake the course to try and complete the Honors assignments.

I personally was looking for some usefull tips to add to my knowledge about correct and efficient learning. Needless to say, I found much more than that. Really helpfull course, especially for students.

Thank you to Professor Oakley and Professor Sejnowski for creating this very interesting course. I'm already using what I learned in the next course I'm taking on Coursera. I now know how to "chunk". :)

Simply loved it. There are so many things I have learnt to improve my own learning process. Plus this gives me a lot of practical learning tools that I can teach my students.

Excellent excellent program!

This is an eye-opening course. Simple, clear, and really helpful for anyone trying to improve their learning skills. Recommended for everyone at any age, but especially for people in school and college!

Loved the instructors, especially Dr Oakley's presentation. Her tone and presentation reassured me that I can tackle the toughest subjects.

This course could not have been taught by a better instructor.

Effective, quick, easy to understand, assimilate and apply. Loved the course, the teachers and the tests. Would recommend it to students, teachers, educators, and everyone who wants more out of life. :)

This course teaches you many aspects & the processes of learning that can be ignored by anybody. This is an Eye-opener for anyone who wants to stay on the right track of Life Long Learning!!

-Aniesh

India

It was wonderful! I found very helfpul all the techniques taught in this course. In addition, the teachers are great and explain perfectly. Efectivelly, understand your brain allows you learning better.

Absolutely worth it to take this course to improve not only the course learning and test-taking, but also for general improvements in life regarding learning, and memory, and to combat procrastination.

I was a person who can't study or learning well, so with this course, I think so many knowledge can improve my mind, my mental to help me learning in better way. Thank you so much for the great course.

This is a great course to build a good tool kit in learning how to learn. You will learn techniques to help you study, learn, and understand the benefits of using those techniques. Highly recommend it.

It's an amazing and well-structured way to learn how to learn that doesn't complicate the mind. It is helping me with many issues and mistakes I had as a habit to transform my way to approach learning.

This course is good for anyone who wants to excel in any field not only in academia. I have started applying some of the techniques to my learning; the results are amazing.

Thank you Barbara and Terry.

This is a very great course! I get new usefull knowleges and understanding that learning is good in every age. I really recommend this course for everybody. Barb and Terry, thanks a lot for your work!

If you are looking for a class that provides a way to get through the difficulties while learning something new, this is the class for you. you will find a way to get past your limitations the easy way

The best course I've ever passed. I want to say thank's a lot such smart and unique professors as Barbara and Terry. I've earned lot's of information that I will use in future. Best wishes from Ukraine

I really liked the course, the zombie figures, and the way how the learning process was presented, i will continue to read the social media presented in this course. I wish for everyone happy learning!

It is an amazing course for people of all ages. It has personally helped me a lot because I have a serious problem of procrastination and self-doubt. I sincerely thank everyone involved in this course.

Techniques mentioned for learning and the concepts about brain functions are excellent.

Excellent work by instructor Barbara Oakley.

Thank you so much for providing very useful information in MOOC.