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About the Course

Mindshift is designed to help boost your career and life in today’s fast-paced learning environment. Whatever your age or stage, Mindshift teaches you essentials such as how to get the most out of online learning and MOOCs, how to seek out and work with mentors, the secrets to avoiding career ruts (and catastrophes) and general ruts in life, and insights such as the value of selective ignorance over general competence. We’ll provide practical insights from science about how to learn and change effectively even in maturity, and we’ll build on what you already know to take your life’s learning in fantastic new directions. This course is designed to show you how to look at what you’re learning, and your place in what’s unfolding in the society around you, so you can be what you want to be, given the real world constraints that life puts on us all. You’ll see that by using certain mental tools and insights, you can learn and do more—far more—than you might have ever dreamed! This course can be taken independent of, concurrent with, or subsequent to, its companion course, Learning How to Learn. (Mindshift is more career focused, and Learning How to Learn is more learning focused.)...

Top reviews

EC

Aug 26, 2020

I enjoyed this course very much. I am 64-years-old and this course taught me that you can learn anything new no matter what age you are. I am now broadening my passions and learning is a lot more fun.

DI

Oct 30, 2020

Great course! This is a lot more general than Learning about Learning but is also useful nonetheless. I like the focus on keeping positive and being confident in your potential despite our weaknesses.

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By Marvin T

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Nov 6, 2022

This course is very informative and entertaining. I was able to discover different approaches on how to learn a difficult subject and at the same time encourage me to broaden my passions by trying new things.

By Mohanad J

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Apr 5, 2021

Again Barbara Oakley and Dr Terrence Sejnowski, make great material and amazing tips not only to help me out with my study and career but also with my life and relationship I'm really glad I took this course.

By Ramaswamy V

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Jun 20, 2020

A combination of the background science and practical tools for learning. Easy to use and well laid out course structure have made this course a joy to take. Wish I had these professors in engineering school.

By Pikachu R

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Aug 17, 2018

I have learnt many things about the functioning of brain. It allowed me to ask the right questions at times. It showed me techniques using which i tackled the unfortunate situation I was in.

Thank-you so much!

By Belén M S

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Jan 22, 2018

I love this course, the professors are amazing, they have studies and interesting research to provide.

The way of presenting the information is very friendly and even fun.

Thanks for this amazing opportunity <3

By Bronwyn M

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Jan 11, 2018

Awesome course learned a lot of helpful things and simply enjoyed taking the class! I will say if you are trying to choose between Learning How to Learn and Mindshift I would take Learning How to Learn First.

By Terri A

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Aug 4, 2023

I loved this course. I love the MOOC's & short quizzes in between subjects they really helped me retain much more than i had expected. I will recommend this class training to others... Thank you so much :)

By Poliane m a

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Sep 22, 2020

Aprendi que não somente as escritas ensinam, que o corpo e imagem podem falar para construir ou confundir dependendo do contexto e que algumas riquezas estão nos prquenos detalhes inseridos de todo contexto.

By Liuyun T

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Aug 4, 2020

Pretty useful course! I was confused after I graduated from university for a while and don't know where my next step is, Mindshift taught me that it's never too late to change your majors. Just keep move on.

By Parham D

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Apr 17, 2020

Undoubtedly, Mindshift has been one of the best MOOCs that I have ever had. It really shifts mind! I have acquired surprising insights into how my brain works and how to control myself in the way of success.

By #WALKRoberto P

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May 6, 2019

YO quiero agradecer a TODOS los profesores e investigadores que crearon este curso! Me han dado confianza `para seguir. Brillante y muy buena suerte con los que vengan! Estoy MUY FELIZ DE HABERLO realizado!

By Fu S K

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Aug 4, 2020

This course is amazing and I gain much more understanding on myself when it comes to learning. More importantly, the course is beautifully designed in a way that you can gain some valuable insights at ease.

By Bashishta N

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Jul 28, 2020

In starting looks pretty normal , slowly it was having quite practical aspect of deal with natural issue being faced by me in day to day work . Its very energetic and superbly explained. I like and enjoyed.

By Muhammad A U B

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Jul 7, 2020

What a great course to me it has been! Thank you McMaster University and Coursera for offering me this course. Having completed the course I learnt many more things and pinpointed my shortfalls in learning.

By Amitabh S

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May 9, 2020

Mandatory! Yes that is what this course should be for any subject or skill one needs to learn. Gratitude and Thanks to Barb and Terry alongwith the Mindshift team for providing me these tools. Thanks again

By Paulina O

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Feb 11, 2020

A great way to change my mind and to open it to a new possibilities, I loved it, it´s so dynamic and easy to understand with the marvelous teachers and their knowledge, it´s so wonderful, I learned so much.

By Judi T H

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Jun 1, 2020

Thoroughly enjoyed this course, thank you. However, I should have completed the learning to learn course first and I shall go back and enroll. Again, thank you for sharing your knowledge and information.

By Seda B

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May 15, 2020

This course is excelllent!!! I love the Instructor especially Barb Oakley so kind and energetic. Thank you all take care of yourselves.

Medical Doctor of Physical medicine and rehabilitation , From Turkey

By Shanen L D S

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Apr 13, 2020

The course is very helpful to tackle the challenges arising in changing learning paths and careers. The materials and lecture are very immersive and understandable to anyone. I personally loved the course.

By Kevin V

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Nov 7, 2019

Excellent course, makes you re evaluate life choices and what you think are your limitations. Barbara Oakley is an exceptional educator, looking forward to enrolling in any future MOOC that she may create!

By Michael H

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Feb 3, 2019

I really enjoyed taking this course. The instructors are clearly getting better at what they do as time goes by, and they've done an excellent job of offering the material in a simple and relatable manner.

By Aino R E

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Aug 8, 2021

I found this course superb. I learned a lot about myself on how I operate. This has had a huge impact on me to the degree that I am looking through different glasses as I approach learning and employment.

By Monica L

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Apr 6, 2021

Very relevant course for this days during pandemic, easy to understand and fun too! It is interactive, short quizes are good to keep us on track of our understanding to the course. Thank you Barb & Terry!

By Dustin H

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May 17, 2020

This was the 2nd course that I have taken with these 2 professors and they are by far the most proficient and really understand the online learning community. I would like to see these 2 do more courses.

By Igor K

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Apr 4, 2020

Fantastic MOOC! The effort to put this together really shows, and the instructor is super engaging. The material is rather basic, but probably valuable to most. This is a really well put together package!