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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

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.

LV

Apr 30, 2020

I enjoyed this MOOC. It is very well-done and clearly covers the topics of mindshifting along with career advancement. Also--good illustrations and visuals/sounds which assist in the learning process.

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By Komal S

Apr 29, 2020

Enrolling in the Mindshift course was one of the best decisions I ever made. I have gained so much knowledge from this course as well as highly pleased with the course content, instructors and workload. The course has impacted me in a positive way and will help anyone who is looking for a positive change in there life!!!

By Argenis A

May 31, 2018

Awesome course it helps you to understand your brain how it works and how to approach studies habits also something that I loved and is really useful for me 1- How to take advantage of Procrastination 2- If you are or feel a slow learner that is not bad at all. So I encourage you to do this course and don't stop learning

By Freddy R

Dec 28, 2020

Recently unemployed and out of school for a long time, I decided to take Mindshift as a stepping stone to future on-line learning. The information provided is invaluable. it really boosted my self-confidence and egged me on a new learning adventure which may lead to a possible career shift. I definitely recommend it.

By Vikas M K

May 8, 2020

This course have given me a lot of insights about the benefits of being a slow learner, having a bad memory, ways to fight Procrastination, the science behind mind-shifting and ways to climb up the learning ladder in a more efficient manner with the knowledge of hurdles which will eventually come on the way to success.

By Albert K

Mar 13, 2018

Mindshift is a great course. The great benefit is that complex knowledge on brain and learning is outstandingly explained in a way that is simple and intelligible. It helped me a lot to find out more about and foster my own learning. The course is like a greenhouse where dialogue and development are cultivated so w

By Dorian O

Sep 20, 2017

It is the best MOOC I ever have taken. I learned a lot from Barbara Oakley. I really appreciate her great and excellent gift she gave us. I think is a very important course for everybody and it should be taught from schools. In a very concise way the course gives all the tools you need to improve our learning process.

By Weeyaa V

Apr 29, 2020

Mindshift MOOC is la ife-changer. It was able to open my eyes to see that what I saw as potentially bad, be it styles of learning to simple attitudes or behaviors can actually be reversed and in the end be opportunities for bringing about something good not just in my learning or understanding but general ly in life.

By ABHINAV S

Jul 1, 2020

An excellent course to motivate you to keep learning and skilling up. It talks about various important ideas like understanding your strengths as weaknesses and using your apparent weaknesses as strengths. It talks about techniques to cope with anxiety and much more and it does all this in a creative and fun manner.

By Eric M

May 9, 2020

Anyone who is diving into online learning or MOOCs should take this course first. It's well structured - enough content without being overwhelming and very relevant to self-guided learning. I started using the lessons from Mindshift as I was taking the course and it helped me better learn and retain the information.

By Juan P T

Jul 16, 2020

I learned a lot on this MOOC even if I have not yet read the book. The concepts were explained without getting bored and very interactive as well. Both Barbara and Terry did well in introducing this course to anyone who wants to take a second look on how they learning so far, and have appreciated them. Keep it up.

By Iván E A

Jan 22, 2020

This course was a great follow up for "Learning how to Learn". Barbara Oakley is a great instructor. This course gives you valuable insights on how we should broaden our passions, rather than blindly follow them. Also, how career setbacks can mean new opportunities and how to control our emotions by labeling them.

By BC B

Feb 22, 2021

Excellent course! The material and the presentation of the material was very captivating, and made the learning easy and fast. This was one of the courses I couldn't wait to get back to! Thank you for putting together a very helpful course for people who want to learn, but were burnt out and discouraged like me.

By Ijeoma P

Sep 25, 2020

Mindshift was in the name...the topics discussed and lessons illustrated did exactly that...they shifted my mind. What I also found helpful were the bonus videos that provided memory tips. I am glad my sister recommended the class to me and I would recommend it to others. I'll definitely apply for other courses.

By Rebecca W B

Jun 10, 2020

I took this and the companion Learning How to Learn as my first MOOCs. The clear images, effective visuals, and concise text with interesting learning features were just the right balance to get me started with on-line learning. Great job presenting useful and simple tools and advice to improve my own learning.

By Meenal S D

Apr 25, 2020

Mind-shift is an excellent life learning message for everyone, at any age, any stage, any time, from any profession. The mental tricks including reframing are very useful. Superb course content, interesting videos and effective execution in her ever- charming style by Barbara and Terry.

Thank you from my heart.

By Manish D

Sep 3, 2017

Excellent summary about learning throughout one's lifecourse. I personally was already familiar with most of the concepts presented, but enjoyed the course very much nonetheless. The instructors are generally engaging and do a commendable job of bringing the latest research together in an easy-to-digest format.

By ediwin z

Jan 11, 2021

Mindshift is almost wonderfully of "learn how to learn',and it give me more confuse to change my job and lifestyle in the future!. It is really great pleasure to Coursera.I will keep going other classes in Coursera.

Thank you very much! also I hope that more and more people to take this course in near future!

By victor m r

Aug 12, 2020

it a breakthrough course. It is very recomended for anyone who has lost their jobs and realize that their carees fall down into obsolecense or it is not as well pay than before. We have to look inside in an ever changing world and understand thar learning for life is the new rule of growing up into our lives.

By 谢鸿蔚

Jun 23, 2020

囿于我当下的英文写作能力,我在这次评价中选择使用中文。在本课程中,Dr. Barbara Oakley 和 Dr. Terrence Sejnowski 综合了各个学科领域的知识,将“思维转变”的可行性、重要性与方法通过生动有趣的语言阐述出来。每一节课程,虽然短小精悍,但是要想学习透彻是需要投入很多的时间的,例如:“如何克服拖延症?”与“How to get motivated”相关的知识点。通过本课程的学习,我掌握了一系列思维转变的方法以及明确职业发展的规划,相信通过不断的识记与练习知识要点,我能够顺畅的掌握“Mindshift”。同时,我也要感谢本次授课的两位老师,感谢他们对于知识的无私分享和精妙的课程设计。

By Mainak S

Jun 4, 2020

I thoroughly enjoyed the course and got many positives. Particularly, I am re-convinced about the benefits of life long learning and the possibility to embrace changes any time in life. Mind shft is possible! Gratitude to Barbara and Terrence and everyone who helped in preparing this MOOC, not the least Phil!

By Ayu C W

Oct 24, 2022

This is a great courses. If you feel like you have a passion but what you are studying or working right now is not about your passion. Then you still want to follow your passion no matter you are still young or not. You arrived in the right course! This course is for youu and happy learning and mindshifting

By Mohammed A

Jul 7, 2020

At last i came to know about the greatest key to success in learning effectively !! I'm extremely happy. Thanks to Barbara Oakley and Dr Sejnowski for making such a great course! Your are the greatest teacher barb ma'am. Thank you so much. I have started my journey towards success!!

❣️ Thank you so much ❣️

By Valerie G

Oct 15, 2019

This course provides a fun and breezy approach to learning how the mind works and how we respond to various environmental factors when it comes to learning. It has encouraged me a lot in my journey to learn and I dare say that I have improved my ability to learn after applying the principles of this course!

By Kadambari I

Apr 10, 2020

Dr. Barbara is a fantastic trainer! She presents concepts in a fun & engaging manner. This course truly brings out some mindset shifting learning that I'm confident will stick with me for a long time. I thoroughly enjoyed it and finished all lessons in 2 days. Thank you for sharing this experience with us!

By Pelit M

Sep 11, 2021

Excellent course for anyone who would like to learn new skills, and is interested in the learning process, how the brain works, tricks to motivate yourself, understand how your brain works and take advantage even of what you conceived as "weak" points. The course is also delivered in a fluent, fun manner.