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Learner Reviews & Feedback for Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by McMaster University

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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 Alfaima S

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Feb 25, 2020

I really liked this and the previous video. It helped me to have a broader passion and explore more things!

By Thomas R

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Mar 20, 2018

A good complement to Learning How to Learn. Concrete and realistic ways to be able to get a career you like

By Jennifer A H

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Oct 16, 2022

Its a course that litterally shift your way of thinking. Easy to understand and the Teacher is phenomenal

By Norein m

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Aug 7, 2020

One of the best course! This helped me learn so much! and i love the professor's teaching style! Thankyou!

By Terri T

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Jul 13, 2020

This was a very interesting course I learned a lot of different aspects of discovering my hidden potential

By Chavda P M

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May 27, 2020

Amazing course!! Dont do it for certificate only....its a mindset changing experience that you'll cherish.

By Rory J G

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May 5, 2020

One of the most valuable courses to have taken, thank you to Barb and the team for this phenomenal course!

By Bart B

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Jul 10, 2019

Great course! Highly recommended! As a retiree it was a great fit for my thoughts, hopes and expectations.

By Ali W H

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Jun 4, 2019

From the first week you will start to know amazing new things and consider change in your way of learning.

By Deleted A

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Sep 4, 2018

One of the best online courses I have ever taken , Big thanks to Dr. Barbara Oakley Dr. Terrence Sejnowski

By Vladimir

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Oct 1, 2017

Highly Recommended Course for everyone. Easy and fun go through, yet provides with very powerful concepts.

By Lipika B

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Aug 25, 2017

excellent. Lots of information regarding active learning along with change in career in life. I liked it.

By Binh L

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Jun 26, 2020

A very well informed course that provides good insights, tips, and practice. I would highly recommend it.

By Aneesh S P

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Apr 29, 2020

One of the best MOOC I have taken. GIves a great perspective. Can't wait to join 'Learning how to learn'

By NAPICHAYA K

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Apr 24, 2020

This course is a truly education Mindshift. I receive many good idea which encourage me to keep thriving.

By Elisabeth F M B G

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Apr 20, 2020

Great learning experience, some things that we know by intuition are wonderfully well described. A must !

By Ayman M

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Jul 4, 2019

It's great course.. It was very useful to me. The instructors made it clear and I learned a lot from them

By Dariya S

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Jan 2, 2019

This course really empowers you and lets you understand the important processes that go on in your brain.

By Minh D

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Dec 11, 2018

Very importance course! I've changed my way of thinking a lot after learning this course. Thank teachers!

By ASHUTOSH P

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Oct 25, 2021

Best moocs i have ever seen. this moocs change my way of thinking it help me a lot to tackle my problem.

By Joana J C

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Jul 19, 2020

It is a wonderful course, I feel motivated and ready to practice the new techniques and ideas I learned.

By Alsya

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Jul 12, 2020

An interesting and informative course. Learned a lot and definitely gave me motivation to keep learning.

By Manh T M

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Apr 3, 2020

I have learned a lot from this course and will apply it to my studies. wow this course is very wonderful

By Liudmyla I

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Apr 13, 2017

Interesting course with a lot of useful information! The team that created this course did a great work!

By Manjiri P

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Jun 15, 2021

This is the best course the MOOCs are interactive the authors are interactive & conceps well explained